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By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 07 Jan 2019

A swoon in motion-picture form: Its lush score, expressive decor and color-coded photography give the Harlem streets and the characters who…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 06 Jan 2019

For all the resilience Baldwin and Jenkins show us here, it is the poet Langston Hughes’ line about “a dream deferred” that comes most…

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By Wendy R. Weinstein (1) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 04 Jan 2019

It’s a perfect pairing of sensibilities; Jenkins and Baldwin share a nuanced, lyrical style that conveys the beauty and hope in even the…

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By Dom Sinacola (87) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 04 Jan 2019

The heartbreaking bravery of Barry Jenkins’ third brilliant film is that he rests upon a clean, aching ambiguity: Such hope is both enough,…

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By Jennie Kermode (588) for Eye for Film (1,537) on 04 Jan 2019

A powerful condemnation of endemic and structural racism, a sweet love story and, at a technical level, a beautifully produced film, If Beale…

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By Bill Arceneaux (31) for Big Easy Magazine (12) on 04 Jan 2019

A movie of our better angels being put to the test. It's a film of realism certainly, romantics completely, and love eternally…

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By Robert Horton (590) for HeraldNet (Everett, WA) (288) on 03 Jan 2019

If Beale Street Could Talk is all mood - and despite the film's uneven effects, that mood is convincing…

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By Tara Thorne (211) for The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) (715) on 03 Jan 2019

But this is less a movie than an actual experience, built to wash over you, leaving bits behind - of race and justice - for you to look at…

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By André Hereford (101) for Metro Weekly (Washington, DC) (190) on 03 Jan 2019

In roles that might have come off too idealized or cute, Layne and James bring to the screen a charged connection that keeps the characters…

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By Micheal Compton (319) for Bowling Green Daily News (319) on 03 Jan 2019

Jenkins brings Baldwin's prose to life in exquisite fashion, in a film that flows like a visual novel with wonderful camera work and a flow…

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By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 03 Jan 2019

In the hands of writer/director Jenkins, Beale Street is adapted into an observant and touching story of young, requited love, but also one…

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By Hope Madden (89) for Columbus Underground (89) on 03 Jan 2019

It is a film without illusions, but one that carries the unbowed spirit of its characters on a deeply felt journey that honors its origins…

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By Bob Bloom (1,124) for Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) (1,017) on 02 Jan 2019

Beale Street' is more a mood piece than a plot-driven movie. Jenkins leads you to become emotionally invested in Tish and Fonny…

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By Tim Brayton (2,283) for Alternate Ending (372) on 02 Jan 2019

Every frame, every beat, every line of dialogue feels like it has been perfectly manicured, at some cost to its vitality…

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By Sean P. Means (2,056) for The Movie Cricket (81) on 02 Jan 2019

Tish and Fonny are young and in love, and there are parts of If Beale Street Could Talk where writer-director Barry Jenkins renders that love…

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By John Urbancich (394) for Your Movies (cleveland.com) (472) on 02 Jan 2019

Writer/director Barry Jenkins one-ups his 'Moonlight' by turning a James Baldwin novel into an immaculately told, '70s love story for the ages…

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By Li Lai (99) for Mediaversity Reviews (99) on 31 Dec 2018

We get to see Tish and Fonny as they see each other: fully realized, at the center of their world, and as people deserving of love…

Review of If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)

By Leslie Combemale (11) for Cinema Siren (10) on 30 Dec 2018

Barry Jenkins brings Baldwin's words to life beautifully, in this lyrical, moving film, one of the best of 2018, that proves the director is…

Review of If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)

By Joe Friar (93) for The Victoria Advocate (93) on 30 Dec 2018

Barry Jenkins' bittersweet story about young Harlem couple Tish (KiKi Layne) and Fonny (Stephan James) basks in a passionate glow of love accented…

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By Carey-Ann Pawsey (11) for Orca Sound (11) on 29 Dec 2018

Director/screenwriter Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) has demonstrated so far over his short career that film can still be thought of as art and…

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