Adepero Oduye and Aasha Davis star in director Dee Rees’s Pariah
Retro Review by Courtney Anderson
Pariah is of the few coming-of-age stories that centers a Black girl, and one of the very few coming-of-age stories that centers a queer person. Pariah ended up being a godsend for me.
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Review by Courtney Anderson
Birds of Prey has arrived to show us that the DCEU knows how to lean into the wackiness without sacrificing style and tone. Birds of Prey is a flashy, colorful, topsy-turvy blast of a film.
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Review by Courtney Anderson
It Chapter Two ultimately feels like a repeat of the first chapter. Only this time, it’s less fun.
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Review by Courtney Anderson
All the personality of the animated The Lion King has been sucked out, and we are left with a bunch of life-like animals — and the humans voicing them — looking and sounding like they’re going through their contractually obligated motions.
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Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Holland star in director Jon Watts’s Spider Man: Far From Home
Review by Courtney Anderson
Far from Home turns out to be a fun, but slightly uneven and familiar journey.
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One of my favorite things about this movie is that no matter how complicated the time-travel missions or the technology that made them possible became, the movie never lost focus of reality.
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Review by Courtney Anderson
I don’t even know where to start with The Perfection. It’s been a day or two, and I’m still gobsmacked by what I witnessed. I don’t know who I am. I don’t know what I am. I don’t know where I am. Please send help.
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As Tony Stark says, “Part of the journey is the end.” Endgame feels like a very appropriate end to this version of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Review by Courtney Anderson
The biggest celebrity in the world is a Black woman who is willing to push herself way past any limitations — her own and the ones the world tends to thrust upon us--to manifest her vision. And it’s amazing to watch her do it.
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Review by Courtney Anderson
I imagine that Jordan Peele’s brain is kind of a chaotic place, with millions of ideas, societal critiques, and rational thoughts flying around at rapid speed. I also imagine that every nightmare, moment of fear or spike of anxiety Peele’s ever had is running around freely, too.
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Review by Courtney Anderson
This movie really just needed tighter writing. It doesn’t have any super glaring issues, and it’s certainly not the first Marvel movie to have problems with exposition and character development – nor is it the worst of the offenders.
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Review by Courtney Anderson
Everything about If Beale Street Could Talk shows that Barry Jenkins’ ultimate goal is to show how much he loves these characters and the Black people who inspired them. And he picked the perfect story to show that love.
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Review by Courtney Anderson
To me, watching Widows felt like I was watching the outline of a potentially fantastic script.
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Shannon Purser and Noah Centineo star in director Ian Samuels’s Sierra Burgess is a Loser
Review / Personal Essay by Courtney Anderson
I’m always waiting for the movie where there’s a fat girl that actually does have a love interest, or at least isn’t spending the entire movie commiserating her weight. Which is what I thought Sierra Burgess Is A Loser would be. And it wasn’t. At all.
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