This drama of a black couple's first date gone horribly wrong, after an encounter with a white Cleveland cop, is fine cinema, though the road trip shots could have been trimmed to shorten its 2:12 length.
Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith are very good as the incompatible leads, as is Bokeem Woodbine as her uncle.
The original score, not available online, is by Devonté Hynes. The movie is nominated for an award for music supervision, which is the choosing and, I think, the obtaining of rights for the songs included in the movie. The tunes are evocative. I didn't count them when we saw it on Tuesday, but sixteen songs are streaming on Spotify and eleven on Apple Music. Many of them are labeled "Explicit." Duh.
I believe this is the feature debut for director Melina Matsoukas, and I know it's the feature debut for screenwriter Lena Waithe, who won an Emmy for writing the Master of None episode in which her character comes out to her family.
Kaluuya was last blogged for Widows and Hynes for Palo Alto.
Rotten Tomatoes' critics' average is 83% and its audiences' a bit higher at 93. The digital release is set for December 31.
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