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Review

The Piano Lesson review – high-quality but low-impact work

by Leila Latif

Mal­colm Wash­ing­ton makes his fea­ture direc­to­r­i­al debut with an ambi­tious adap­ta­tion of one of August Wilson’s most well-known plays.

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Review

The Creator review – welcome, benevolent A.I. overlords!

by Leila Latif

Gareth Edwards serves up a visu­al­ly ambi­tious sto­ry of war between humans and A.I. beings in this heart­felt sci-fi spectacle.

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Review

Monster

by Flora Spencer Grant

Kelvin Har­ri­son Jr goes on tri­al in this well-inten­tioned but melo­dra­mat­ic look at America’s racist legal system.

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Review

Malcolm & Marie

by Charles Bramesco

John David Wash­ing­ton and Zen­daya play out a tedious lovers’ tiff care of writer/​director Sam Levinson.

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Review

Tenet

by Adam Woodward

A stop­pable force meets an infi­nite­ly mov­able object in Christo­pher Nolan’s con­tin­u­um-shat­ter­ing sci-fi thriller.

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Review

Monsters and Men

by Katherine McLaughlin

John David Wash­ing­ton is a cop strug­gling to come to terms with sys­tem­at­ic racism in Reinal­do Mar­cus Green’s debut feature.

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Review

BlacKkKlansman

by Adam Woodward

A black cop infil­trates the Ku Klux Klan in Spike Lee’s fiery, fierce­ly fun­ny take­down of insti­tu­tion­al racism.

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