Not only does [King] don Chisholm’s clothes, adopt her hairstyle, recreate her distinctive smile, and attempt her Bajan-tinged accent, she digs at the core of who Chisholm was in that moment—principled and fearless.

| Aug 8, 2024

"Shirley" plays like the last episode of a four-part 온라인카지노추천 series, and a pretty good one at that.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 8, 2024

Regina King, also a producer of the film, is an inspired choice for the role, and her Shirley is made up of endless strength, kindness and courage.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 1, 2024

The script paces along briskly and John Ridley’s efficient filmmaking choices spotlight the key moments.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2024

With “Shirley” we’re close to almost-not-quite territory, and visually, Ridley sticks with conventional shot sequences of characters in frame, alone, either speaking or reacting. This makes fluidity and interpersonal flow pretty difficult.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 28, 2024

It views her with an all-too-neat moralism about electoral politics, and this ultimately produces a movie that fails to match the actual power of its subject or Regina King, the star who plays her.

| Mar 23, 2024

It's worth seeing, and the performances are strong, but it's a little cookie cutter.

| Mar 23, 2024

This is a very solidly made, well-cast, well-acted biopic.

| Mar 23, 2024

The film peaks and dips with enough frequency to occasionally cause motion sickness, but King’s performance provides a balance. It’s the one constant that guides Shirley through its rockier moments.

| Mar 22, 2024

A sturdy but unspectacular film, one that honors Chisholm’s place in history while representing just one, too-concentrated facet of her giant shadow.

| Mar 22, 2024

“Shirley” had all the potential to be something better. But it isn’t.

| Mar 22, 2024

A flavorless, sanitized approach to storytelling.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 22, 2024

An earnest, curiously listless biopic of a woman whose legacy suffuses modern life, even as it goes unacknowledged.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 21, 2024

A drama that is too content with telling rather than showing.

| Mar 21, 2024

Shirley gets the job done, though I wish it was more worthy of her complexity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 21, 2024

Through it all, Regina King releases a fire that retrieves the spirit of Shirley Chisolm from the less-read pages of history books. The accent, courage and determination are all in King’s bravura performance.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 20, 2024

"Shirley" plays like a filmstrip my grammar-school teachers would have shown during Black History Month.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 19, 2024

For whatever faults she had as a candidate, Chisholm earned her paragraph in the annals of our democracy, and “Shirley” does a conscientious job of fleshing out her story.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 18, 2024

“Shirley” captures the moment that made the Chisholm campaign possible.

| Mar 17, 2024

By the end of the film, audiences will likely be left wondering who she really was, and why “Shirley” never really takes the chance to show us that.

| Original Score: C- | Mar 15, 2024