Blackbird (2015) Movie Critics Review

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Blackbird (2015) Movie Critics Review
Runtime:     99 min
Production:     Tall Skinny Black Boy Productions
Genre:     Drama
Country:     USA
Language:     English 
Director:       Patrik-Ian Polk
Stars:      Mo'Nique, Julian Walker, Kevin Allesee

Blackbird (2015) Movie Review: A young singer struggles with his sexuality and the treatment of others while coming of age in a small Southern Baptist community.

Mo'Nique  as Claire Rousseau

Isaiah Washington  as Lance Rousseau

Terrell Tilford  as Pastor Crandall

Gary Leroi Gray  as Efrem

IMDB : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3181920

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Mike D'Angelo | The Dissolve

At no point does anyone in the film even vaguely resemble an actual 21st-century teenager; when these kids text each other, it comes across like science fiction.

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Kam Williams  | Baret News

A gospel-driven cross of Precious and Rent, only set in a sleepy Southern town that time forgot instead of New York City.

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David Lewis  | San Francisco Chronicle

Director Patrik-Ian Polk makes the ending a little too pat, but he makes us root for these characters to be happy, and for their world to be a better place.

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Stephanie Merry  | Washington Post

Anything that can go wrong, will - often in spectacular fashion.

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Diego Costa  | Slant Magazine

The film is, like its main character, too naïve to understand or, at least, to deploy the reparative powers of camp.

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