Dee Rees’s deeply personal film gets a sparkling new transfer and an assortment of revealing interviews courtesy of Criterion.
Dee Rees’s film scrutinizes how World War II laid bare the unsustainable hypocrisy in America’s bigoted divisions.
In a sense, the posters are highly successful, as they very accurately communicate the text, weaknesses and all.
Specific? Sure. But there’s nothing small about this deeply felt coming-of–age story.
Like its self-conscious imagery, Pariah’s screenplay is, well, overblown.