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  Review by Paddy ★★★★★ 4

  “It’s the same story, just a different name”

  Freddie Gray
  Sam Dubose
  Philando Castile
  Terence Crutcher
  Alton Sterling
  Jamar Clark
  Breonna Taylor
  Rayshard Brooks 
  George Floyd
  Jeremy McDole
  Tamir Rice
  Michael Brown
  Eric Garner...

  The list goes on... this is why they kneel... I was crying the whole damn movie (no, I’m not over exaggerating... this movie brought me to tears for its entire 2+ hour run time). Strong performances by Amandla Stenberg and Russell Hornsby... THIS IS AMERICA

  “It is impossible to be unarmed, when our blackness is the weapon that they fear” 

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  Review by bella ★★★★ 9

  Not to be dramatic but this should replace the entire history curriculum in high schools all over the world.

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  Review by Cameron Kanachki ★★★★★ 2

  It’s well-acted, well-made, & well-written, showing that YA novel adaptations can be more than just romance & dystopias. ACAB.

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  Review by Elle Driver ★★½ 4

  Hmmmm. Well. So...not sure where to begin a review for this without entering 1000 different tangents so I think it's best if I begin this entry with a little background.

  Around last year in 2017 I had a family friend get killed in the Dallas area due to police brutality. If you wanna read about it you can here: www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/05/05/texas-officer-who-killed-black-teenager-leaving-party-is-charged-with-murder/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.3cd9cb09e453. My mom even attended the funeral, although I didn't because I knew I wouldn't be able to bring myself to. Just last year a group of my friends were out and about driving around Huntsville (a small town here in Texas) and a cop decided to stop them because my friends tail light was out. She's a white woman and…

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  Review by mima 🎃 ★★★★

  “Violence, brutality. It’s the same story, just a different name.” 

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  Review by Allison M. 🌱 ★★★½ 6

  I was saddened to learn of screenwriter Audrey Wells' death and I had this lined up to see. Amandla Stenberg gives a great performance as Starr Carter, caught up in two worlds: her life in an African American community and her life at prep school. The film is way better than the trailer. All of the supporting characters are solid as well. The social injustice portrayed is definitely dramatized. However, it uses real examples of people who were unjustly killed including Emmett Till and Sandra Bland. It upsetting to know that police brutality exists, but refreshing to know that young people will stand up to it and fight it until it stops.

  Vegan alert:
  Some non-vegan foods are featured.

  There is also extreme violence toward humans in this film.

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  Review by yazz! *･ﾟ✧ ★★★

  read this last week and would really recommend the book. this adaptation is a tiny bit worse than Alright but i still think it’s worth the watch. the final pages of the book list some of the names of black people who have been murdered and it’s heartbreaking. with those names and everything going on right now i can’t tell whether this was comforting or just made me feel even more helpless to be honest. the way the story translates onto the screen just mimics the news at the moment.

  
  also: ACAB and fuck that hailey girl

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  Review by Bethany ★★★★ 1

  a re-watch definitely makes the flaws in this film much more evident but regardless i really do think this is a mandatory viewing for everyone—absolutely gut-wrenching. amandla is amazing

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  Review by Ethan 🎃 2

  Dear KJ Appa,

  This is not Riverdale,

  You are allowed to act,

  PLEASE try to act 

  You’re better than this,

  At least, I think so

  -E

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  Review by veronica ★★★½

  this is a YA film adaptation so it is not perfect, it has its flaws and sometimes it felt too sloppy, but on the other hand it has a very important message that needs to be spread, now more than ever

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★★

  mostly familiar, glossy Issues melodrama that nonetheless builds and layers on enough emotional reality and political/historical context (that frequently interact with and complicate each other) to make this fairly dramatically engrossing even when the writing gets blunt and overplays its hand—which it does severely in a handful of dialogue exchanges and narration. as far as polished, mainstream liberal primers go however this is relatively moving and well-observed.

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  Review by Houston Coley ★★★

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  The bit with the Harry Potter wands hit home, dude