The series, based on Tyson’s one-man Broadway show, pulls a few punches but lands the big swings.
The film finds its purpose most pointedly when it zeroes in on the unambiguous relationship between Holiday and “Strange Fruit.”
It’s an imagination-starved redo of The Happening crossbred with a more malevolent strain of zombie-flick DNA.
Director Shane Black’s streak of puckish nihilism is an attitude that makes him a perfect for this franchise.
12 Strong inevitably proceeds as a jaunty imperial adventure through the wilds of northern Afghanistan.
Moonlight’s unlikely success hopefully implies that the world has yet to slide entirely down a rabbit hole of unbridled bigotry.
What tends to right Moonlight, even when Jenkins’s style drifts into indulgence, is the strength of its actors.
The acting in Moonlight elevates the clichés of Barry Jenkins’s script into something approaching lived truth.