Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
A story of love and injustice, where neither quite gets its deserved redemption at the film’s close.
It’s beautiful nonetheless. As with Moonlight, Barry Jenkins manages to inject that shred of hope into subject matter where one can really only feel mostly dread.
Beale Street is less lonely than Moonlight, the protagonists share a deep bond and there’s a small community of support behind them.
But it’s more jumbled than Jenkins’ predecessor with the latter’s much defined three acts, and…