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Stylish, provocative, and powerful, Queen & Slim tells a gripping fugitive story steeped in timely, thoughtful subtext.
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It think it is a thrilling debut [for director Melina Matsoukas]... You fall in love with this couple. Dec 2, 2019 | Full Review…
It think it is a thrilling debut [for director Melina Matsoukas]... You fall in love with this couple.
Amy Nicholson
It makes bold narrative choices but backs them up with confidence, so there's never any questioning Matsoukas' vision. She's delivered a potent love story for our times. Dec 1, 2019 | Rating: A | Full Review…
It makes bold narrative choices but backs them up with confidence, so there's never any questioning Matsoukas' vision. She's delivered a potent love story for our times.
Adam Graham
Fantasy requires a wide berth, but it's not always clear whose fantasy is being worked here. Nov 28, 2019 | Full Review…
Fantasy requires a wide berth, but it's not always clear whose fantasy is being worked here.
John Anderson
There's no getting around the appeal of these two characters, as Kaluuya and Turner-Smith play them... Nov 28, 2019 | Full Review…
There's no getting around the appeal of these two characters, as Kaluuya and Turner-Smith play them...
Stephanie Zacharek
I responded strongly to the film's sense of scope and scale. The 'rhetoric' of Queen & Slim reverberates with anger and love and mourning. Nov 27, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
I responded strongly to the film's sense of scope and scale. The 'rhetoric' of Queen & Slim reverberates with anger and love and mourning.
Sheila O'Malley
Queen & Slim is one of those increasingly rare movies that should leave audiences discussing it after they exit the theater. Yet if the film derives power from its broader context, there's strength in the journey as well as the destination. Nov 27, 2019 | Full Review…
Queen & Slim is one of those increasingly rare movies that should leave audiences discussing it after they exit the theater. Yet if the film derives power from its broader context, there's strength in the journey as well as the destination.
Brian Lowry
Terrific performances captured by a strong director. Dec 5, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Terrific performances captured by a strong director.
Bob Grimm
The Blackness in Queen & Slim is limited, possibly because it was all performative to begin with. Dec 4, 2019 | Full Review…
The Blackness in Queen & Slim is limited, possibly because it was all performative to begin with.
Monique Jones
Powerfully stimulating and contemplative, Matsoukas helms a thrilling on-the-run romancer engineered by its potency of affection, anger, affliction, and alienation. Dec 4, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Powerfully stimulating and contemplative, Matsoukas helms a thrilling on-the-run romancer engineered by its potency of affection, anger, affliction, and alienation.
Frank Ochieng
Queen & Slim is going to be lost in the melee that is December film openings, but it deserves so much more. It deserves to be found. Dec 4, 2019 | Full Review…
Queen & Slim is going to be lost in the melee that is December film openings, but it deserves so much more. It deserves to be found.
Martha K. Baker
Channel(s) hundreds of years of systemic oppression into a blinding and beautiful work of art that feels like throwing a firecracker into a crowd. Dec 4, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Channel(s) hundreds of years of systemic oppression into a blinding and beautiful work of art that feels like throwing a firecracker into a crowd.
Matthew Lucas
A commendable feature film debut that features a talented cast, and a seductive audiovisual identity. [Full review in Spanish] Dec 3, 2019 | Full Review…
A commendable feature film debut that features a talented cast, and a seductive audiovisual identity. [Full review in Spanish]
Nestor Bentancor
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