After nearly a year of video-on-demand premieres–and coming almost at the end of an entirely virtual film festival–the larger-than-life, widescreen photography (by Sean Bobbitt) and the abundant close-ups in Shaka King’s Judas and the Black Messiah made me long for...
One of the most stirring things about Melina Matsoukas’ powerful feature directing debut Queen & Slim is how little suspension of disbelief its wild story requires. Not that many years ago, a lot of white viewers might have questioned the...