Review of Monsters and Men (2018) by Bob K — 12 Jan 2019

The consequences on a neighborhood from an unjust shooting, with no obvious answers or simplicity. Three men are affected, each with a choice which could knock them out of their complacency and into action, or activism.

The movie is told in three acts, and they are only really connected by the shooting. Anthony Ramos, for instance, disappears just as you're wondering what will happen to him. The opening scene, with John David Washington getting pulled over for no reason, is absolutely perfect tension, as is the scene when Kelvin Harrison is searched on his way home from practice.