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Twitter movie ‘Zola’ gets big cheers at Sundance
Five years ago, the greatest stripper tale ever tweeted captivated the social media platform. Now it’s a hit festival movie.
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‘Crip Camp’ — executive produced by the Obamas — plays to a packed house on Sundance’s opening night
The film is an early front-runner for best documentary
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Can ‘Bad Boys’ become good men?
Will Smith became the biggest movie star in the world by playing one cop after another. In the Black Lives Matter era, can that still resonate?
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Hey, academy: Where are the (black) women?
In a year where black women were behind the scenes in some of the most critically acclaimed material, no one’s name was called
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Despite a bang-up cast, a flimsy story consigns ‘Like a Boss’ to Dump Month
Tiffany Haddish, Rose Byrne, Salma Hayek and Billy Porter can’t save this story on friendship and the beauty industry
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‘Just Mercy’ shows that Atticus Finch was fiction, but Bryan Stevenson is real
Movie tells the story of the founding of Stevenson’s Equal Justice Initiative
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Wandering in search of Wakanda
A critic seeks out black utopias in ‘Ain’t No Mo’,’ Beyoncé’s ‘Homecoming’ and David Byrne’s Broadway show
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Jamie Foxx’s ‘Any Given Sunday’ character pioneered a shift for black quarterbacks
Willie Beamen was a quarterback willing to run — and lead — on his own terms
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Adam Sandler’s ‘Uncut Gems’ is a gloriously ugly film
Co-star Kevin Garnett’s casting comes across as a bit of genius