Female Film Critics 24/375
For a movie that spends so much time on the lunar surface, Over the Moon proves stubbornly earthbound. This CGI-animated musical, which marks the directorial debut of veteran animator Glen Keane, boasts plenty of eye-popping colors and frenetic action. It’s a pleasant enough voyage — but hardly an earth-shaking one.
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Based on Angie Thomas’ bestselling 2017 YA novel, this social justice drama revolves around teenage Starr Carter (Amandla Stenberg), who is trying to maintain an emotional balance as she straddles two disparate worlds. Raised in the poor, predominantly black Georgia neighborhood of Garden Heights, Starr goes to Williamson Prep a private, predominantly white suburban school. That involves constant code-switching.
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The Hate U Give is an important film and a weighty film, one that raises questions about what we as a society will accept — from our community members, from our leaders, from the politicians who are supposed to represent us, from the police who are supposed to protect us. The movie, based on the novel by Angie Thomas, considers a tragedy that feels simultaneously ripped from the headlines and quite commonplace: the killing of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer.
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