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8.5/10
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Wicked: For Good
(2025)
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Nate Tinner-Williams
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The intoxication of false bliss and the temptation to grow weary in well-doing are certainly alive and well today, and I’ll be the very last to complain about a poignant commentary in musical form. Have at it, folks.
Posted Dec 11, 2025
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B-
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The New Yorker at 100
(2025)
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Nate Tinner-Williams
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The magazine is, at its core, a White-led, White-staffed enterprise reflecting the imagination of only the most genteel White liberal—in New York or elsewhere. That the documentary would like us to think otherwise renders it a remarkably tone-deaf effort.
Posted Nov 01, 2025
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A-
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Eden
(2024)
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Nate Tinner-Williams
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Even the animals in the story are victims of savagery, pawns in a zero-sum game with deadly stakes. It’s “Lord of the Flies” meets “Jurassic Park”—and the exotic, grotesque predators are the humans.
Posted Sep 08, 2025
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C
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Highest 2 Lowest
(2025)
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Nate Tinner-Williams
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The film is a disappointment in that it has very little discernible identity. Washington is, naturally, a force of nature, but that is no excuse for an otherwise poorly written and acted work that only pretends to have a message.
Posted Aug 19, 2025
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B
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The Knife
(2024)
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Nate Tinner-Williams
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At a certain point, tension gives way to absurdity. Police interactions are not to be trifled with, especially for African Americans, but fictionalizing reality beyond the frame of believability seems to almost cheapen the real-life crisis.
Posted Aug 18, 2025
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A-
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Black Bag
(2025)
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Nate Tinner-Williams
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I found myself trusting no one, perhaps because of Hollywood conditioning to valorize villainy and wait patiently for altruists to be destroyed... “Black Bag,” while rejecting such inversions, is still more complicated than one might expect.
Posted May 04, 2025
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A+
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The Colors Within
(2024)
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Nate Tinner-Williams
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For the anime fan, it’s perhaps an unexpected foray into uncharted territory. For the music fan, it’s a compelling story of experimentation and determination. For everyone else, it’s just a darn good movie that tugs the heartstrings much like a guitar.
Posted Mar 21, 2025
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8.5/10
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I'm Still Here
(2024)
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Nate Tinner-Williams
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At least a secondary message of the film [is] that hopelessness does not mean all hope is lost. Thus, insofar as a movie about torture and forced disappearance can be a feel-good story, “I’m Still Here” pulls off the impossible.
Posted Jan 31, 2025
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7/10
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Gladiator II
(2024)
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Nate Tinner-Williams
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It’s curious how little of the story is new, compared with the former film. Gladiator-slave in Rome, fighting to stay alive but also to prove a point: that Rome just ain’t what it used to be.
Posted Jan 13, 2025
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5.7/10
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The Forge
(2024)
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Nate Tinner-Williams
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“The Forge” is a Black-presenting Christian film from a group of very conservative White Christian creators about fatherlessness and respectability. I’ll just leave that there.
Posted Sep 06, 2024
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D
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Origin
(2023)
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Nate Tinner-Williams
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One question repeated at various points in the film carries relevance here: How does this all fit together? Plot twist: it doesn't.
Posted Aug 10, 2024
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A
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American Symphony
(2023)
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Nate Tinner-Williams
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It’s clear the film spared no expense in following Batiste during the year 2022, as he explored the contours of his musical inspiration while battling personal challenges in and out of the public eye.
Posted Aug 10, 2024
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A+
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
(2023)
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Nate Tinner-Williams
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Hard to find much to critique in the new Sony film, given the clear attention to detail given to nearly every aspect of the film. It is literally dripping with artistic fervor, combined with an all-star cast that is still somehow subtle and not overdone.
Posted Aug 10, 2024
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A
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Take Me to the River: New Orleans
(2022)
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Nate Tinner-Williams
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Though one could be fooled by its marketing into thinking the movie is a history doc, the film is moreso a behind-the-scenes look at a series of studio performances from the assembled artists, with historical vignettes on New Orleans interspersed.
Posted Aug 10, 2024
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C
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Chevalier
(2022)
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Nate Tinner-Williams
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Feels much like the “tragic mulatto” tale of old, a stereotypical rendering of a biracial Black who struggles to fit in as a minority and—due to prevailing prejudices—cannot achieve social status among Whites either.
Posted Aug 10, 2024
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7/10
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Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
(2022)
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Nate Tinner-Williams
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Ever so tidy, tying up loose ends that many Houston fans and onlookers likely wondered about in her final years and beyond. The resolutions did not always feel genuine, however, and at times seemed quite rushed.
Posted Aug 10, 2024
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B-
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One Night in Miami
(2020)
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Nate Tinner-Williams
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A relatively weak performance from lead Eli Goree as Ali threatened to derail the film at times (including the beginning), but was largely buoyed by the above standouts and the steadying—if not thematically stifling—dialogue from Aldis Hodge's Jim Brown.
Posted Aug 10, 2024
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C
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Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara
(2023)
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Nate Tinner-Williams
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Even the victims of religious prejudice are apparently not immune to its viral effects. Perhaps there is a lesson for the Church today in the film’s message, ham-fisted though it may be.
Posted Aug 10, 2024
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