The United States vs. Billie Holiday – Summary, Review (with Spoilers)
The United States vs. Billie Holiday all boils down to Andra Day as Billie Holiday, and playing on the hatred of the FBI you surely have by now watching these stories.
Positive (Worth Seeing)
Whether you’ll have to go to the movies, download or stream, movies of this category are worth your time and money with few, if any, qualms from us.
Stealing School (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Stealing School may make you fearful of computer science majors as you watch one do whatever it takes to graduate.
Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry acts as a reminder of not only the brilliance of Eilish, but of her age, frailty, and how a small team made a world-renowned artist.
A Writer’s Odyssey (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
If you’re missing the big-budget productions Hollywood is too scared to release theatrically, A Writer’s Odyssey can help you with your fix.
Little Fish (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Little Fish will leave you wondering why all the best romances are constricted by tragedy.
Malcolm & Marie – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Malcolm & Marie pushes you to understand the complicated middle before a relationship comes to an end.
Bambirak – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Who of us didn’t want to spend more time with our parents, specifically see what they did when we weren’t around? That’s what Kati gets to do in Bambirak.
White Wedding (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
An absent father finds himself working the wedding of the daughter he never got to know.
Bruiser (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
When your father is the epitome of masculinity, what does it say about you if you aren’t a spitting image of that?
Judas And The Black Messiah (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Like nearly every well-crafted film about Black oppression in America, Judas and the Messiah will enrage you, tire you out, and make you hope J. Edgar Hoover and his enablers, rot in hell.
BJ’s Mobile Gift Shop (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
The 16 minutes of Jason Park’s BJ’s Mobile Gift Shop will leave you demanding a full-length feature film, featuring Johnnyboy Tellem before 2021 is over.
Ava From My Class (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Ava From My Class pushes you to wonder where the line between admiration and a crush is for its young lead.
First Date (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
If you thought McG’s The Babysitter series was over the top and crazy, Manuel Crosby and Darren Knapp respond with “Challenge accepted” with First Date.
Marvelous and the Black Hole – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Marvelous and the Black Hole, while it can come off as an angsty teenage film, it doesn’t push its lead to move on or get over it but harness that anger into something good.
Passing (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
While the sometimes volatile intimacy between Ruth Negga and Tessa Thompson makes Passing interesting, you may not feel it confronts the subject matter as you want.
R#J – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
We’ve all seen some version of Romeo and Juliet, but none of them compare to Carey Williams’ R#J.
Street Gang: How We Got To Sesame Street – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Street Gang: How We Got To Sesame Street is filled with nostalgia and fleshes out your childhood memories with what it took to make you smile and learn.
How It Ends (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
How It Ends combines a drama about reconciliation before the end of the world and all the eccentric people you’d expect to see getting high before everyone dies.
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Rita Moreno: Just A Girl Who Decided To Go For It somehow feels like a thorough exploration of a nearly 70-year career, yet because it is Rita Moreno, you still want more!
The Criminals – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Many young adults worldwide take advantage of privacy, which isn’t legally available to our two leads. But will they risk getting arrested to get it?
Doublespeak – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
In Doublespeak, you are sorely reminded how Human Resources is more focused on protecting the company’s assets than your dignity or sense of safety.
No Strings – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Perhaps saving the best for last, No Strings delivers a sense of longing that reminds you how much we’re willing to compromise or settle for the sake of company.
If Only You Were Mine – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
The seduction of someone older and more mature meets realizing their maturity doesn’t mean they are ready for you.
Lolo – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
In Lolo, you’ll feel like you are watching the childhood years of a group of friends before the time jumps to them as adults.
White Lie – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
In White Lie, you watch as a con artist desperately tries to maintain their story of having cancer, seemingly by any means necessary.
American Skin – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
American Skin is a confrontational film. One which confronts your views of police, their victims, and the perspectives the police bring based in fear and a righteous sense of duty.
Run Hide Fight – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
You ever think to yourself, “I built up a tolerance to this kind of stuff?” Yeah, “Run Hide Fight” may test that theory.
Dr. Bird’s Advice for Sad Poets – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Dr. Bird’s Advice For Sad Poets is draining, beautiful, yet a reminder that there is no instant cure or end to the struggle of making progress. Sometimes just an occasional reprieve.
If Not Now, When? – Summary/ Review (with Spoilers)
“If Not Now, When?” in exploring the struggle to maintain long relationships, reminds you why all the work is ultimately worth it.
Pieces of a Woman – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Pieces of a Woman is the type of cinema that may benefit from a streaming release as moments come when you need to pause and walk away for a moment.
One Night In Miami – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Like Kemp Powers’ “Soul,” “One Night In Miami” leaves you searching for meaning in past actions and contemplating your path in life going forward.
The Last Shift – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
The Last Shift taps into a quieter story, minus any grandstanding, to allow two characters to be challenged by one another and learn something despite their differences.
Pinocchio (2020) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Based on the 1883 Italian The Adventures of Pinocchio, this version of Pinocchio is dark, maybe not the best for kids, but so weird that it’s good.
Soul – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Like most Pixar films, Soul bridges what is expected from animated films aimed at children and the type of stories that can bring adults to tears.
I Remember – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
I Remember asks you to forgive it’s lead tells, as he gets the chance to live out his dream of dating the girl who always seemed out of his league.
Promising Young Woman – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Promising Young Woman challenges the revenge narrative you are used to and pushes you to expect more from future stories in the sub-genre.
First Christmas – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
As with most of OWN’s “OWN For The Holidays,” First Christmas pushes new narratives beyond the Christmas formula, which might be the best one yet.
Ariana Grande’s Excuse Me, I Love You – Summary/ Review (with Spoilers)
Ariana Grande’s Excuse Me, I Love You may not be a classic concert film, but for those who miss seeing live performances, it’ll give you what you need.
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – Review/Summary
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom gives you what you expect from Viola Davis, and in Chadwick Boseman’s final film, he makes it clear he could excel in a role of someone not already an icon.
