I get the A Woman Under the Influence comparisons, but I think if you try to hold this movie up to that standard it’s not going to stand very tall since what Cassavetes was aiming for had larger reach. But if you hold this film to its own standards it def can sit on its own merits. Lovely lead performance and a committed cinematic concept that for me isnt necessarily the right one (I will get to that later) but…

I just like how they dealt with race in American movies in the 90’s much more than now. This is a movie that astounds me cause it’s all about peeling back, aesthetically, narratively and thematically. It fits like a glove that by the end you are left with far more than what you expected this movie to give you. It’s opening crime thriller elements represented by Thornton’s well played nervous yokel, Michael Beach’s all time underrated performance as the psychopathic…

Nah bruh, this ain’t it. 

This cinematic trend to beautify Black struggle and minimize it narratively to some struggle of “self” rather than a real analysis of how Blackness always gets the short end of the stick by design is a horrible trend. This film attempted to use cinematic tricks and visual aesthetics to cover up for the fact it has nothing real to say about what has happened to Black people in gentrification despite its grandiose title. It hides…

Let me get this out the way, this doc is absolutely awful. It’s the equivalent of “Say no to drugs” campaign infomercials they had in the ’80s. Alarmist, fear-mongering (as it criticizes fear-mongering) and is built to be a cheap confessional for a bunch of White people who got rich off of social media and are now promoting themselves as ethical tech folks cause suddenly they see the light. Rubbish. I don’t see them giving their fortunes back cause they…