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Dear White People adds a welcome new voice to cinema's oft-neglected discussion of race, tackling its timely themes with intelligence, honesty, and gratifyingly sharp wit.
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Here's a film that refreshingly acknowledges various elephants in cinema's crowded living room: racism, the interracial sex taboo and class war. Jul 9, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Here's a film that refreshingly acknowledges various elephants in cinema's crowded living room: racism, the interracial sex taboo and class war.
Peter Bradshaw
The best moments get to the heart of Simien's thesis that what is supposed to be post-racial America isn't all that much different from what came before. Jan 5, 2015 | Rating: 3/5
The best moments get to the heart of Simien's thesis that what is supposed to be post-racial America isn't all that much different from what came before.
Cary Darling
A timely and important look at black identity and how it's informed by by stereotypes in the media Jan 5, 2015 | Full Review…
A timely and important look at black identity and how it's informed by by stereotypes in the media
Inkoo Kang
Where it scores big is its wealth of ideas-visual, emotional, cultural-and its deep well of bitter, voice-of-experience rage Jan 5, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Where it scores big is its wealth of ideas-visual, emotional, cultural-and its deep well of bitter, voice-of-experience rage
Tom Huddleston
Even as the jokes cut deep, Dear White People doesn't hesitate to get real. Jan 5, 2015 | Rating: A- | Full Review…
Even as the jokes cut deep, Dear White People doesn't hesitate to get real.
Eric Kohn
Screenplay is tight, funny, smart and insightful, and [the] direction has just enough indie feel without becoming too self-conscious or preachy. Jan 5, 2015
Screenplay is tight, funny, smart and insightful, and [the] direction has just enough indie feel without becoming too self-conscious or preachy.
Richard Roeper
Behind those three big, inciting words is a film that's as comedic as it is confrontational and as universal as it is intimate, a new-school satire about black identity that's more inclusive than exclusive. Mar 22, 2019 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…
Behind those three big, inciting words is a film that's as comedic as it is confrontational and as universal as it is intimate, a new-school satire about black identity that's more inclusive than exclusive.
Bernard Boo
Perhaps the best thing Dear White People will do, like Go Fish before it, is to become a gateway for films and television in the same vein. Mar 12, 2019 | Full Review…
Perhaps the best thing Dear White People will do, like Go Fish before it, is to become a gateway for films and television in the same vein.
Ren Jender
It's a well-executed satire, smartly acted (it won the Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent at Sundance) and has an interesting plot. Jun 13, 2018 | Full Review…
It's a well-executed satire, smartly acted (it won the Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent at Sundance) and has an interesting plot.
Kara Brown
All in all it was a good movie. It was funny and served its purpose, I don't think I'll be telling folks this is the movie they need to see for 2014 but it's one I would suggest. Jun 12, 2018 | Full Review…
All in all it was a good movie. It was funny and served its purpose, I don't think I'll be telling folks this is the movie they need to see for 2014 but it's one I would suggest.
Omar Holmon
Dear White People embodies the virtues of the truly independent film, substituting strong writing, good performances from a largely unfamiliar cast, and a fresh, distinctive vision for the blockbuster's hefty budget. Nov 21, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Dear White People embodies the virtues of the truly independent film, substituting strong writing, good performances from a largely unfamiliar cast, and a fresh, distinctive vision for the blockbuster's hefty budget.
Ellin Stein
Everyone will laugh at different things in Dear White People, and everyone will wince at different things. This is a great movie to see in a big group-you'll want to talk about it as soon as it's over. Oct 11, 2017 | Full Review…
Everyone will laugh at different things in Dear White People, and everyone will wince at different things. This is a great movie to see in a big group-you'll want to talk about it as soon as it's over.
Sarah Marrs
There will be haters, for sure, and the haters will be outraged whites complaining about "reverse racism" and other imaginary things like how "there is no racism in America anymore" - which is a pity, really, since this excellent satire should be dedicated to you, dear white racist.
Super Reviewer
On an elite campus racial tensions cause a black student to infiltrate a white frat house. Energetic, politically significant, and delightfully witty, is Higher Learning and Do the Right Thing with a smirk. It's satire whereas the others were grittier dramas with satirical edges. The character-driven plot suffers a second act lull, and one plot point comes from nowhere, but the rest is fresh and interesting. In a Hollywood landscape where almost all the films about race are simplistic or insulting (2004 Best Picture winner Crash was both), this film is such a welcomed breath of fresh air that it's easy to forgive any of its flaws. Overall, director Justin Simien is a fresh new voice, and I can't wait for his follow-up.
"Dear White People" is a film full of divisive issues on race, presented with hysterical point of view by writer/director Justin Simien. The main takeaway of this film is the issue of identity when you are classified as the "Other" in a white dominated society. Many different perspectives emerge from the various black cast members: that of the upper middle class rich kid who don't see disparity, though their actions contribute to it, the voice of an angry faction fed up with white privilege, and whom places race in every conversation, and the voice of someone who doesn't know their racial identity because of their various interests. Every issue that this film brings up makes you, as an audience member, angry and enlivened. The fact that racism's biases are so entrenched in our lives, and yet we treat it as a dead, age old form of degradation is unfathomable. The characters sometimes rely on clichés, and aren't always as fully developed as I would like, but their problems and motivations are fleshed out. Writer/Director Justin Simien has a unique, personal voice that rings true, and even if you don't enjoy the film, I wouldn't doubt you will be thinking about it a long time afterwards.
Tyler James Williams is the best eye-actor of his generation. You can tell this is a young film-maker, he drifts into cliches a bit too often, but I'm gonna keep an eye on him, I could see great things coming.
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