Namwali Serpell
Namwali Serpell's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
The Nation
The New York Review of Books
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Movies reviews only
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Atlantics (2019) |
It wreaks havoc with the interlocking hierarchy of class, race, and gender that most of these other films assume, leaving in its wake a startling study of power in the raw. - The Nation
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| Posted Nov 20, 2019
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Us (2019) |
An extraordinary turn by Nyong'o. - The Nation
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| Posted Mar 29, 2019
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The Favourite (2018) |
Strangely enough, it may be through its beasts that The Favourite makes the strongest case that women are, in fact, humans. - The New York Review of Books
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| Posted Dec 14, 2018
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Blade Runner 2049 (2017) |
In the end, Villeneuve's allusion to Nabokov confesses the derivative status of his sequel... - The New York Review of Books
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| Posted Nov 14, 2018
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Sorry to Bother You (2018) |
Indeed, smuggled inside Riley's rollicking mashup of surrealism and sci-fi is a cutting critique of race and class. - The New York Review of Books
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| Posted Jul 24, 2018
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Black Panther (2018) |
Rather than reflecting or distorting a world, this technology builds a world and then lets it fall away. I cannot think of a better metaphor than black sand for a diaspora, a word that comes from a "scattering" yet has come to signify unity and solidarity - The New York Review of Books
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| Posted Feb 22, 2018
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