The Harder They Come deserves a weirder, more surprising stage adaptation.
The film finds its purpose most pointedly when it zeroes in on the unambiguous relationship between Holiday and “Strange Fruit.”
Once an accidental act of violence sends the main character’s life into a spiral, the film unfortunately spirals with him.
Suzan-Lori Parks’s blackly comic Southern gothic is sprinkled with poetic assertions on postwar distress and home-life abuses.
Girl 6, the story of a girl and her stint in the phone sex biz, is a sloppy and problematic film, no diggity.
In which Lee mind-wrestles with a feminist screenwriter and everyone loses.