Review of All Day and a Night (2020) by Ty Burr for Boston Globe — 01 May 2020

This is a grim, at times lurid tale with hard observations about growing up poor, Black, and male in America — about the cycles of defeat that can land multiple generations in prison — and many of the details have the sting of the rap songs that permeate the soundtrack.

Elsewhere, however, All Day and a Night plays like an urban crime thriller made with more earnestness than style.