Queen & Slim bowls you over with its powerful, charged story. Not one to be missed.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 6, 2020

An excellent, hard-hitting new film about race relations in America today...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 13, 2020

A thoroughly moral tale told with great flair.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 11, 2020

As this hot couple unwittingly become Black Lives Matter icons, the provocative script is increasingly peppered with implausible beats and infuriatingly dim decisions but it's worth riding those out to reach the transcendent moments between.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 5, 2020

Effortlessly charismatic and oozing chemistry, this is a duo to die for.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 3, 2020

An intoxicatingly lawless lovers-on-the-run romance played out against the politically charged backdrop of racially divided modern America.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 2, 2020

Sometimes Queen & Slim is too stylish for its own good and a few detours drag. But how can you find fault with a movie that combines the intelligence of Ava DuVernay's documentary 13th with the madcap energy of True Romance?

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 31, 2020

Simultaneously beautiful and troubling.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 31, 2020

Their characters are only loosely sketched, which suits both Kaluuya's watchful, reticent performance - reminiscent of his star-making work in Get Out - and Turner-Smith's lack of experience.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 30, 2020

The film just doesn't work, but we'll be intrigued to see what Matsoukas does next.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 30, 2020

This is a punchy, watchable film...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 30, 2020

Matsoukas has the high style you would expect from a career in music video... But look closer and the pop-culture strut is an inheritance from movie history.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 22, 2020

"From whence does fulfillment come?" Sumney wonders, and Queen & Slim is at its best when it paints portraits of black love and black resistance as answers to that question.

| Dec 27, 2019

Ultimately, Queen & Slim seems to bolster a belief-women should be quiet and support their men-that's both inherently conservative and especially frustrating given the nature of the lovers-on-the-run genre.

| Dec 11, 2019

The director's confident patience guides the pacing of Queen & Slim, allowing both the film and the relationship between its titular characters to unfold organically, even as the stakes of the picture are established within its first 15 minutes.

| Dec 3, 2019

It think it is a thrilling debut [for director Melina Matsoukas]... You fall in love with this couple.

| Dec 3, 2019

Very entertaining in a number of ways. Thrilling, kind of funny... Love these two actors together.

| Dec 3, 2019

It's a Bonnie and Clyde tale worth telling today.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 2, 2019

I didn't think I would grow attached to this disparate couple, but both Kaluuya & Turner-Smith are charismatic and the film serves them well. The end may be inevitable to anyone familiar with lovers-on-the-lam stories but it still packs a punch

| Dec 2, 2019

It makes bold narrative choices but backs them up with confidence, so there's never any questioning Matsoukas' vision. She's delivered a potent love story for our times.

| Original Score: A | Dec 1, 2019