Blindspotting & Widows

December 17, 2018 00:04:33
Blindspotting & Widows
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Blindspotting & Widows

Dec 17 2018 | 00:04:33

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Show Notes

Blindspotting deftly mixes realism with theatricality to portray the struggles of being black in the city, while Widows features a multi-ethnic group of women planning a big heist. In a year when racially conscious American films grabbed the spotlight, two that have got a lot of attention (well-deserved) were Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You and Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman. But there was another that deserved more credit, and that I liked even better. It’s called Blindspotting, directed by Carlos López Estrada—it had a fairly good run in theaters this summer, and now it’s streaming and on DVD. In my case…

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