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  • Black Films Help 2025 Toronto International Film Festival Celebrate its 50th Anniversary

    As TIFF turned 50 it rolled out the red carpet for 291 films from around the world. Over 11 festive ... [ Read More ]

    Black Films Help 2025 Toronto International Film Festival Celebrate its 50th Anniversary
  • Love, Brooklyn

    (**1/2) He loves her. He loves her not. She loves him, she loves him not. That’s why they ... [ Read More ]

    Love, Brooklyn
  • An Officer and a Spy

    (***1/2)  Accused, court-martialed and imprisoned. Back in late 1800s France, the ... [ Read More ]

    An Officer and a Spy
  • Highest 2 Lowest

    (***)  “Oh, what a beautiful mornin’, Oh what a beautiful day. I've got a ... [ Read More ]

    Highest 2 Lowest
  • The Fantastic Four: First Steps

    (**1/2)  “I will not sacrifice this child for the world. I will not sacrifice this world ... [ Read More ]

    The Fantastic Four: First Steps
  • Weapons

    (***1/2)  They’re gone. Just like that they disappeared into the night. At 2:17am. ... [ Read More ]

    Weapons
  • The Naked Gun

    (**)  The Naked Gun is shooting blanks. Not all the time. But some of the ... [ Read More ]

    The Naked Gun
  • I Know What You Did Last Summer

    (**)  They had it coming. The negligence and callousness they showed that night set them ... [ Read More ]

    I Know What You Did Last Summer
  • Superman

    (***)  It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s a broken man. A broken Kryptonian who’s trying to ... [ Read More ]

    Superman
  • F1: The Movie

    (***)  It’s a Tom Cruise kinda movie, but it stars Brad Pitt. He’s the protagonist in ... [ Read More ]

    F1: The Movie
  • 28 Years Later

    (***)  Waking up in a hospital bed and discovering the world has been devastated by a ... [ Read More ]

    28 Years Later
  • Wizkid: Long Live Lagos Premieres at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival

    If Afrobeats music has a king, it’s Wizkid. He wasn’t self-anointed. It’s just that his music has ... [ Read More ]

    Wizkid: Long Live Lagos Premieres at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival

Selma

December 27, 2014 By: Dwight Brown

By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic R.I.P. Martin Luther King. Your story has been told. Your legacy passed on. Your strategies for non-violent demonstrations shared. Your ability to change hearts, minds and laws well-documented. Selma, in the most inspiring way, relays MLK’s state of grace. It is a worthy homage befitting of America’s most iconic […]

Annie

December 27, 2014 By: Dwight Brown

By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic On the surface, there is absolutely no reason to update the classic Broadway show Annie, which was already adapted for the screen in 1982. But this multicultural cast redux adds a hip swag to the classic kid’s story. This Annie is urban, emotional and fun. But far from perfect. […]

Exodus: Gods and Kings

December 27, 2014 By: Dwight Brown

By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic “Exodus: Movement of Jah people! Oh-oh-oh, yea-eah!” chants Bob Marley. In his rousing three-minute song “Exodus” he presents a more strong and spiritual feel for Moses than Ridley Scott’s 154-minute, whitewashed sword-and-sandals epic. Travel from the north to the south of Egypt and there is a variance of skin […]

Top Five

December 27, 2014 By: Dwight Brown

By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic Chris Rock recently hosted Saturday Night Live. During the show’s normal intro section, he did around 10 minutes of standup. One of the targets of his wicked humor was the new World Trade Center. He said he would never go in it. There were audible gasps, and a bit […]

Beyond the Lights

December 27, 2014 By: Dwight Brown

By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic Quick Rihanna, check to see if someone stole your diary. This ode to young black chanteuses fighting personal demons feels like the story of her life. But in fact, it’s the brainchild of writer/director Gina Prince-Bythewood (Love & Basketball), who knows her way around a romantic drama. Noni (Gugu […]

Interstellar

December 27, 2014 By: Dwight Brown

By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic Remember Gravity. Remember the simplicity, raw emotion, visual wonder, precision pacing and unpretentious central character in that space odyssey? Hold that thought. You’ll need to. Interstellar is no Gravity; it’s on a different flight pattern. The script, by director/writer Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight) and his brother writer Jonathan […]

Nightcrawler

October 26, 2014 By: Dwight Brown

By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic They mostly come out at night, under the cloak of darkness. They swarm around dead bodies and carnage. Around the wounded, the maimed, the vulnerable. They’re hated by some, loathed by others. No, not vultures. Not vampires. Crime journalists. Stringers, aka “nightcrawlers,” with no conscience, who would do anything […]

St. Vincent

October 26, 2014 By: Dwight Brown

By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic “Oh Lord. Take me now. Don’t mess with me!” pleads Vincent (Bill Murray), a disheveled, directionless drunk. The guy could drink jet fuel without a chaser. He lives alone in a dilapidated house in Brooklyn because his wife is in a nursing home with Alzheimer’s. He gambles on the […]

Dear White People

October 26, 2014 By: Dwight Brown

By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic “Dear white people: The minimum requirement of black friends needed to not seem racist has just been raised…to two.” Biting satire abounds in this witty, edgy ode to racism in the age of Obama. In his debut feature film, writer/director Justin Simien’s perceptive observances take no prisoners. It’s a […]

I Am Ali

October 26, 2014 By: Dwight Brown

By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic “I am the greatest!” Who can forget the cocky trademark phrase that was delivered by the most endearing boxer of all time? Retracing Muhammad Ali’s vibrant life is an opportunity for audiences to reexamine American history, race relations, the civil rights movement, the antiwar movement and the sports world […]

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