Review of If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) by Michael Phillips for Chicago Tribune — 21 Dec 2018
What Baldwin does with words, Jenkins does visually. It’s what Blanche DuBois says in “A Streetcar Named Desire”: “I don’t want realism. I want magic!” In “Beale Street” that magic can be crushing, and soul-stirring, sometimes simultaneously.
Jenkins’ epilogue, not found in the novel, may go a little far in its embrace of the affirmative. But that’s hardly the worst thing you can say about any film, let alone one as lovely as this one.
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This review of If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) was written by Michael Phillips and published by Chicago Tribune on 21 Dec 2018.
If Beale Street Could Talk has generally received positive reviews.
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