Review of Candyman (2021) by Tim Grierson for Screen Daily — 25 Aug 2021
Director Nia DaCosta’s follow-up is both bitingly satiric and elegantly suspenseful, illustrating how race and class still bedevil modern life. Produced and cowritten by Jordan Peele, and featuring an arresting performance from Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Candyman has an unmistakable anger embedded within its scares, persuasively depicting how Black Americans feel traumatised by a country that treats them like monsters.
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This review of Candyman (2021) was written by Tim Grierson and published by Screen Daily on 25 Aug 2021.
Candyman has generally received mixed reviews.
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