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By Chris Evangelista (306) for Slashfilm (971) on 10 Sep 2018

Romantic and tragic, Beale Street is gorgeous and emotionally stirring - the type of movie that only comes along every so often…

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By Allan Hunter (1,486) for The List (2,018) on 10 Sep 2018

This is a great big lyrical swoon of a film with a rueful anger concealed beneath its soft, tender heart…

Review of If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)

By Nicholas Bell (55) for IONCINEMA.com (55) on 10 Sep 2018

Newcomer KiKi Layne is a fitting choice as the naive protagonist of Baldwin's prose, which is kept wonderfully intact…

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By Richard Porton (36) for The Daily Beast (380) on 10 Sep 2018

To a certain extent, Jenkins's adaptation of Beale Street embodies what is often termed the blues aesthetic in African-American culture-the…

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By Matt Goldberg (248) for Collider (1,032) on 10 Sep 2018

You can see the broad outline of what Jenkins wanted to accomplish with If Beale Street Could Talk, but the inside is hollow…

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By Shelagh Rowan-Legg (77) for ScreenAnarchy (469) on 10 Sep 2018

A glorious anthem; a poem of the deepest love; a vision of colour and a testament to pain; an ode to Black America in all of its variations,…

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By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 10 Sep 2018

What Jenkins gets most right—what astonishes me the most about this film—is Baldwin’s vast affection for the broad varieties of black…

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By Andrew Parker (194) for The Gate (178) on 10 Sep 2018

If Moonlight was one of the best films of its year, and Medicine for Melancholy was a debut feature that hinted at future greatness, If Beale…

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By Christopher Schobert (126) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 10 Sep 2018

Barry Jenkins has created a film both tender and tough, with a time, a place, and a story to lose oneself in…

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By Sarah-Tai Black (68) for Cinema Scope (405) on 10 Sep 2018

The still space between the soul of Baldwin and the vision of Jenkins-that poetic space which was so lushly considered in Moonlight -is here…

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By David Crow (142) for Den of Geek (424) on 09 Sep 2018

It clearly demands analysis and much thought long after it's over, but the soul of the picture is what lingers like a wistful memory of times…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 09 Sep 2018

If the movie’s slow burn seems to build toward a powerful release that doesn’t materialize, the sheer beauty of its craft and the heartfelt…

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By Kate Taylor (347) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 09 Sep 2018

Jenkins creates many remarkable scenes, particularly as the male characters discuss the racist realities with which they live…

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By Rubin Safaya (167) for Cinemalogue (704) on 09 Sep 2018

Jenkins rightly attempts to connect these moments to historical images of Black strife, but it's simultaneously derivative and misplaced despite…

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By Jordan Ruimy (242) for World of Reel (117) on 09 Sep 2018

The film turns into a picturesque experience more than any kind of involving, tension-filled, or even emotional one…

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By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for Fresh and Frowsy (7) on 09 Sep 2018

In Beale Street, the issues being discussed through both #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo get tangled, but Jenkins is careful to make sure they…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 09 Sep 2018

In some ways Beale feels less like a movie than a well-staged, meticulously shot play; a period piece that floats beyond its specific time…

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By Jason Gorber (520) for Dork Shelf (109) on 09 Sep 2018

A film that will affect you deeply both emotionally and intellectually…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for indieWire (3,631) on 09 Sep 2018

If Beale Street Could Talk stalls about halfway through with less involving developments and stilted roles for supporting characters...but…

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By Matt Donnelly (3) for TheWrap (3,203) on 09 Sep 2018

The film is a bold and elegant celebration of young black love in the face of a Harlem rife with police corruption…

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