Santana Whatley

Santana Whatley

I love going to Sundance! Looking forward to reviewing all the films I see there every year.

Favorite films

  • Promising Young Woman
  • The Shining
  • Girl, Interrupted

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  • Hereditary
  • Bad Hair
  • The Souvenir
  • Girl, Interrupted

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  • Bad Hair

    Bad Hair

    ★★★★½

    Justin Simien takes a complex message about societal expectations and delivers it using a satirical horror film as his medium. Bad Hair started out with telling the story of a young woman in the entertainment industry who struggles to climb the corporate ladder and afford rent spikes in her recently gentrified neighborhood. Throughout the film, there is an embedded directive that shows the audience how POC’s are expected to take their culture and force it into a cookie cutter mold…

  • Promising Young Woman

    Promising Young Woman

    ★★★★★

    This film definitely did not have the ending that everyone is expecting. It’s not the type of ending you’d expect in any film about assault, rape, murder, etc. This movie was made to be entertaining but also very BLUNT to get an important message across. When you see this in theaters, you’ll leave with a sense of disappointment in the ending (but not with the film).

    The disappointment in the ending however, directly correlates to the thought of “I wish…