‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ MOVIE REVIEW: Barry Jenkins Delivers an Impressive Follow-Up to ‘Moonlight’
Another assured, emotional film from the ‘Moonlight’ Oscar winner.
Another assured, emotional film from the ‘Moonlight’ Oscar winner.
Doesn’t know whether to make you laugh or scream, so it tries, and fails, at both.
As a history lesson, it can be compelling, but overwrought emotions and cliches aren’t necessary with a message this clear.
A deep, very well-crafted look at an epic scam, and one that will rightly have you infuriated.
Margaret Qualley and Anthony Mackie star in one heck of a pointless venture.
A complex period of politics and controversial decision-makers reduced to satire and frivolity.
Ignores genuinely interesting details in favour of scandal and melodrama, as well as annoying thinly-veiled social commentary.
It really doesn’t sound good.
It’s charming and crowd-pleasing, but its angle on race relations does get a little icky.
It hates everything. It hates you. It is a movie that revels in its own cynicism.