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By Alison Willmore (681) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 26 Jun 2023

The Blackening gets halfway there, and has the benefit of some gifted performers and some very good ideas…

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By Melora (2) on 23 Jun 2023

Trash and racist and stupid, not sure what anyone was thinking making this rubbish…

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By Tvjerry (1,783) on 22 Jun 2023

Seven Black college friends get together 10 later for a fun weekend at a cabin in the woods…

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By Moviemitch96 (552) on 20 Jun 2023

A group of African-American friends all gather together for a reunion at a cabin in the woods, only to find that someone there is watching…

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By Vincentwynnii (2) on 20 Jun 2023

Extremely funny! Some people may not get all the jokes but the ones that do will thoroughly enjoy…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 20 Jun 2023

The Blackening is a flat-out satire from frame #1, and there’s nothing wrong with that…

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By Diehardnotsoft (2) on 19 Jun 2023

I was hoping for a few more laughs in this one. They forced it a little and it was a bit mundane…

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By Royalguy07 (396) on 17 Jun 2023

Basically a loose comedy set in a cabin the woods thriller. The body count is low enough that its not really a slasher film…

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By Peyton Robinson (23) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 16 Jun 2023

The Blackening is an unapologetically Black comedy through and through…

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By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN (497) on 16 Jun 2023

Like other self-referential horror/comedies (the “Scream” franchise come to mind), the film ably delivers on its premise, mining enough…

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By Thom Ernst (141) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 16 Jun 2023

The film works, mostly as a comedy, never as a horror, but would work better if Story didn’t squander the film’s potential with an uneven…

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By Martinman01 (1) on 16 Jun 2023

Sick of partisan politics. No wonder Hollywood is dying…

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By Lresendi25 (1) on 16 Jun 2023

Don’t let these modern-day Nazi’s ruin it for you…

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By Wmurphy011 (11) on 16 Jun 2023

The truth: This is yet another fake racial premise based absolutely no truth…

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By Zaki Hasan (247) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 15 Jun 2023

This is a horror movie the way the original “Ghostbusters” is a horror movie –– that is to say, not really — and like that film,…

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By Lisa Kennedy (833) for The New York Times (9,847) on 15 Jun 2023

The Blackening comes with a horror movie’s requisite skittish and stalking camerawork, its creaks and breath-holding hushes, its gore and…

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By Chase Hutchinson (96) for Collider (1,032) on 15 Jun 2023

Even as not all the jokes land, the rare experience of getting to take in a spoof comedy like this makes it worthwhile all the same…

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By Katie Walsh (1,279) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 15 Jun 2023

It succeeds as a comedy but not quite as a horror film, the genre merely a setting and style for sending up insidious character stereotypes…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 15 Jun 2023

Would have no reason to exist if it didn’t constantly foreground the issue of race, and yet affords no pointed or amusing commentary on the subject…

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By Marcus Shorter (2) for Consequence (296) on 14 Jun 2023

The Blackening is tense, funny, and thoughtful…

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