By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Carlos López Estrada
Starring: Daveed Diggs | Ethan Embry | Janina Gavankar | Jasmine Cephas Jones | Rafael Casal
Country: united_states
Year: 2018
Running time: 95
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7242142/reference
Chris says: “As regional/provincial cinema goes, this is valuable enough—it depicts Oakland lovingly without sentimentalizing it. Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal are also good together (and apart) and should each be in more films, please. However, the direction’s ham-fisted, the hipster house party is too satirically glib to mesh with the film’s stabs at ‘realism’ and the climax hinges upon a coincidence I just didn’t buy. Grading generously, though, because it has something vital to say, even if it somewhat fumbles the execution. 3 cats”
Thom says: “Collin (a lustrous Daveed Diggs) has 3 days to go on his probation but he witnesses a police killing and his whole life changes. The Oakland interracial bromance is sweet, if volcanic, & the blank verse prose is catchy and fun. 4 cats”