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  Review by Mirage ★ 63

  This was pretty boring. Plus points for all the continental talent outshining her I suppose, but not much of anything to hold onto.

  Your typical Beyonce project: Shallow, contradictory, classist & dry. The whole idea that Black Americans are lost because we're stripped of our "nobility" and have forgotten our roots as Kangs & Queens is some hotep nonsense.

  I can't take the same woman who mentioned Malcolm X & Bill Gates in the same sentence, wore Black Panthers aesthetics for performances while promoting capitalism & visualizes reparations for Black Americans as some ancestral jargon seriously.

  Stop telling Black Americans we have no identity challenge. (Like forreal, that scene of the voiceover with the guy saying "We don't speak our native tongue...We don't know…

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  Review by Lucy 27

  i BELIEVE in beyoncé supremacy

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  Review by ✰ diana ✰ ★★★★ 2

  @beyoncé hey queen! girl, you have done it again, constantly raising the bar for all of us and doing it flawlessly!

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  Review by nic ★★★★★ 4

  the references, the artistic vision, the outfits, the choreography, the BEYONCÉ of it all.... and that’s on being the greatest entertainer of all time

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★½

  No surprise, a huge dose of gorgeous, often poetic imagery and stunning performance. The LION KING stuff robs it of a not-insignificant amount of power. Felt like calculated corporate synergy, really bummed me out.

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  Review by NightOwlishe ★ 12

  Black is King (2020): alternate title: Beyonce, a literal millionaire, tries to relate to normal people and pretends Lion King (2019), a soulless corporate product, is a real social cause.

  A few of the songs are fine to okay. What bothers me is for this millionaire to be basically telling people the "right" way to be black for a lot of the runtime. It's reaching for some interesting concepts later on but still falls short.
  At its worst moments, it feels like it just uses African aesthetics and people as props, window dressing Beyonce can fetishize from real lives into a shallow, corporate product. It's never really about Africa, just a commodified, corporate version of it.

  There's just all this…

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  Review by ty ★★★★★ 1

  Beyoncé knows we’re in a crisis and said I’m on my way. Here to give me another reason to live. I love her. She is everything to me!

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  Review by aaron 2

  she is the mother i’ve never had, she is the sister everybody would want. she is the friend that everybody deserves and I don’t know a better person.

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  Review by ✨PinkMcflurry (Danya)✨ ★★★★★ 10

  Beyoncé’s waist told me to shut my fat ass up....so I shut my fat ass up! 

  “Let black by synonyms with glory “ 

  Beyoncé makes me so proud to be black!  Anything she touches becomes gold just like the sun that our beautiful melanin skin soaks in.  This had so many beautiful symbolic elements. Really love the spin on Lion King in this. This was just art in every frame. 

  
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  Review by BlakeMower ★★★★★ 9

  YES!!! A new film from my favorite director, Beyoncé!

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  Review by madelyn✨ 2

  my three favorite moments:
  1. BROWN SKIN GIRL–
  the beauty!! really appreciated how there were girls in full gowns at a debutante ball, but in the next shot we see girls posing in suits. your beauty is not connected to your adherence to femininity! lupita acts as almost a muse in this song, naomi is the original, and kelly is the epitome of sisterhood. and of course blue shines!

  2. MY POWER–
  THE WAY I SCREAMED WHEN TIERRA SHOWED UP! i was waiting for her the entire time and was so excited to see her! the film is at its highest energy at this moment. what can i say other than their POWER!!!!!

  3. FIND YOUR WAY BACK–
  obsessed with…

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  Review by Logan Kenny ★★ 8

  a couple good Beyoncé videos, mixed with a bunch of kinda awful imagery for guest artists, a line-up of mostly forgettable singles and truly awful Lion King (2019) incorporation makes for a frustrating viewing experience. I don’t understand why they had the voices of Rogen and Eichner saying Hakuna Matata over a random shot of a car driving down a road in Africa! very disappointing when considering the high standards Beyoncé has with her visual albums, Lemonade is one of the standout films of the 2010s, so I’m extremely confused as to why this lacks cohesion visually from song to song and has arguably weak visualisation outside of major Beyoncé songs (although the one in her house is also just…