Female Film Critics 24/375
Lost & Found in Cleveland is the kind of movie that makes you think to yourself, “They don’t make movies like that anymore” without really knowing whether that’s good or bad. The film, like so many slice of Americana films, takes place around the holidays and has that old-timey, small town vibe that makes you nostalgic for a past we’re supposed to yearn for even though it almost certainly wasn’t what it’s cracked up to be.
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There is nothing pretty about Judas and the Black Messiah. It is, of necessity, a very dark movie, dark in its setting and lighting, and dark in the horrible history of J. Edgar Hoover against Blacks in general and, here, Fred Hampton in particular. Hoover called first for Hampton’s jailing and then for his killing. At 21.
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Commemorating Black History Month, Shaka King’s Judas and the Black Messiah focuses on the rise to power of Fred Hampton
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Life is hardly a fairy tale for even the most fortunate among us. Alisha is far from the most fortunate among us. Memorably embodied by young Tayler Buck, Alisha — who prefers to be called “Princess” — is the 12-year-old at the heart of Princess of the Row, a heart-tugging drama that sometimes tugs too hard.
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