Zamata is not only deadly with her precision-timed one-liners but piercing in the more dramatic beats.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 30, 2021

The ladies are the strong center of this breezy and completely ingenious romantic comedy.

| Sep 30, 2020

The Weekend endears us to its characters, inspires plenty of laughs and has us wondering if Zamata is a movie star on the rise.

| Jul 16, 2020

On the one hand, it could seem like some kind of triumph to see a young black filmmaker play in the same shallow end of the pool, but given that she's already helmed two other (better!) features, this feels like the worst kind of regression.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 21, 2019

The process of how [her] pain becomes comedy is very interesting to watch.

| Sep 16, 2019

Notwithstanding any comparisons, there's more assured personality here than there was in her last feature, the bright, proficient but somewhat synthetic big-studio teen romance "Everything, Everything."

| Sep 13, 2019

The Weekend quickly proves to be the mopiest comedy in many a moon.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 13, 2019

The level of authenticity within the intriguing character dynamics, bolstered by fine performances, provides some sensitively rendered surprises amid the obligatory relationship dirty laundry.

| Sep 13, 2019

It drags a bit at times, especially as it winds down, but it remains a film you want to spend more time with.

| Sep 13, 2019

The Weekend explores all kinds of relationships dynamics in its' rather short run time, and also manages to have some great cinematography and production design (courtesy of Kris Belchevski and Cindy Chao & Michele Yu respectively) to boot.

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 6, 2019

The Weekend is a little too leadenly paced to work as comedy, but Meghie settles [the film] nicely into a tonal groove as an earnest, emotional relationship drama.

| May 4, 2019

The Weekend feels quietly radical with its rendering of Black characters in roles we normally see reserved for the white upper middle class.

| Original Score: A- | Mar 24, 2019

Meghie constructs a sharp comedic portrait of a woman learning to take charge of her own destiny.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 17, 2018

The Weekend gets off to a decidedly rough start that eventually becomes just another part of the movie's shaggy dog lovability by which I was, at least partially, won over.

| Nov 14, 2018

For those who saw Meghie's stellar debut "Jean of the Joneses," "The Weekend" is the proper follow-up, a brutally funny and whipsmart comedy that goes so many places that few others have, even though it is largely confined to one location.

| Oct 15, 2018

What works so well in The Weekend is the hilarious and authentic script written by Stella Meghie.

| Sep 27, 2018

Filmmaker Stella Meghie kicks The Weekend off with a strained, unfunny standup set from Zamata's character that instantly sets a tone of forced artificiality...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 24, 2018

Luckily, Meghie and the cast's ability to tap into a great deal of humor with a whole lot of energy helps to minimize the cringeworthy aspect of some of the unfortunate circumstances the characters find themselves in.

| Sep 21, 2018

Meghie is adept at sliding between subplots and mixing her characters into talky combinations, all the better to maximize the film's slim 86-minute running time, but it's Zamata and her Zadie who steal nearly every moment.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 21, 2018

Sasheer Zamata finally got a chance to deliver comedy in a way she wasn't able to do on SNL and we see her fully for the talented comedian that she is.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 19, 2018