[The Hate U Give] is a faithful adaptation of a powerful book that will hopefully make you want to change the world.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Jan 21, 2023

George Tillman Jr. works with a lot of moving parts and manages them with an able hand.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 21, 2022

The Hate U Give isnt always an easy pill to swallow by design: Tillman and Wells want to start a conversation. They succeed in their intentions, creating one of the best films of the past decade, and a showcase for Stenberg.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 20, 2022

While its ending ties up everything in a perhaps too-neat little bow, the film also stands as one of the most powerful and vital films of the year.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 10, 2021

[Has] an important impact to experience as a movie-goer, but artistically it's missing a little something for me.... the [book] is great and important.

| Jun 16, 2021

Sixteen-year-old Starr is the sole witness to her childhood friend's fatal shooting by a white police officer and everything changes for her and her family.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 2, 2021

A potent, powerful work, full of tough questions, tougher answers, and outstanding performances.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 6, 2020

Amandla Stenberg gives a phenomenal performance not to be missed. She's a fantastic young talent who really wrestles with Starr's continual conflict at hand...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 5, 2020

An important story that is told with passion and purpose, led by the fantastic Amanda Stenberg.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 28, 2020

It delivers a knockout gut punch that resonates with poignant tenacity, a sobering reality and a blistering performance from Amandla Stenberg.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 25, 2020

Characters manage to double as sociopolitical voice boxes as well as fleshed out people, most of whom exist in their own grey-area moralities despite their preconceived ethics.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 25, 2020

The narrative is too patchy with its argument about police brutality, discrimination, and institutional racism. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 18, 2020

This is a rousing, great little movie that feels epic in scale and importance.

| Jul 1, 2020

They don't make "issue movies" better than this.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 29, 2020

The Hate U Give is poignant, significant and incredibly relevant.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 8, 2019

Ultimately, The Hate U Give is an incredibly powerful character study, a crackling thriller, and even a shrewd editorial on the impact of violence in America.

| Oct 18, 2019

Two hours of unforgettable cinematic storytelling which kept me enthralled from the opening few frames until the closing credits.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 23, 2019

Amandla Stenberg is a force to be reckoned with as she finds her voice playing Starr with real and raw emotion.

| Aug 21, 2019

More than simply highlighting prejudice, The Hate U Give peels back another layer and examines the issues that can divide the Black community from within.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 18, 2019

Starr Carter describes herself as a girl of two versions. The socially savvy 16-year-old keeps her twin selves on well-oiled tracks-until they're both blasted out of the water by a policeman.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 7, 2019