Rating: 2/5
Was Sorry to Bother You too confrontational? Did Dear White People still make you feel guilty? Was American Fiction’s dated critique too pointed?
Here’s a toothless movie about white fragility that doesn’t functionally critique the respectability politics it lampoons. But don’t worry, we get a speech near the end that amounts to, “Did you know Black Lives Matter?”
Here’s what I liked: the movie had some funny jokes, Justice Smith and An-Li Bogan had moments of palpable on-screen chemistry, and I’m always happy to see Drew Tarver or Michaela Watkins.
Still, the thread was not enough to hold up the messy yarn sculpture that is this movie.