Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy Headed People 1984

  ★★★★★ Watched 10 Feb 2025

  "Girl, if your hair did not turn back [at the party], you did NOT have a good time!"

  Five stars for Blackness. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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  Elegy 2008

  ★★★★ Watched 03 Feb 2025

  Well what do you know, sometimes the film is actually better than the book!

Popular reviews

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  Boyz n the Hood 1991

  ★★★★½ Added

  One of those films you watch and think to yourself "it's a miracle this exists at all." I have so many intense feelings about this film that one day I will put into a full essay. But for now I'll just say that for John Singleton to tell a story about violence that somehow avoids exploitative sensationalism, didacticism, and respectability, is a masterful dance that all (screen) writers should study.

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  Small Things Like These 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 18 Dec 2024

  This book is a favorite of mine, and a couple of months ago in anticipation of the film, I wrote about the societal significance of the story and how deftly it depicts the ways informal social networks enforce the boundaries of oppression. So much of the book takes place in Bill Furlong's head that I was very curious about how the film would approach an adaptation. It is really is a marvel how Murphy can embody the spectrum of internal…

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