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  1. Sep 12, 2019 Full Review Hannah Giorgis The Atlantic Jenkins's If Beale Street Could Talk is a gorgeous, enveloping film -- and one of its most poignant triumphs is how vividly it captures the ...

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  2. Nov 7, 2018 · His film is lush and ambitious, its theme of racial bias as relevant now as it was when Baldwin’s novel first appeared. The film is also too pretty for its own good at times, and more compelling ...

  3. Feb 8, 2019 · Barry Jenkins follows up on his Oscar-winning film Moonlight with the even more impressive If Beale Street Could Talk, an adaptation of a James Baldwin novel. Shot in a hyper-lyrical fashion that ...

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  4. Nov 6, 2018 · From the opening moments, in which the author’s words are recited in voiceover, Jenkins channels all of Baldwin’s lyricism and anger into a story of love and injustice that burns with a gentle ...

    • February 8, 2019
    • Barry Jenkins
  5. This becomes our longing as well. Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 22, 2022. A testament of how enduring love is extended to everyone around us, If Beale Street Could Talk is the familial ...

  6. Dec 14, 2018 · Set in early-1970s Harlem, If Beale Street Could Talk is a timeless and moving love story of both a couple's unbreakable bond and the African-American family's empowering embrace, as told through the eyes of 19-year old Tish Rivers (KiKi Layne). A daughter and wife-to-be, Tish vividly recalls the passion, respect and trust that have connected her and her artist fiancé Alonzo Hunt, who goes by ...

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  8. Beautifully shot, but emotionally languid. Based on James Baldwin 's 1974 novel of the same name, If Beale Street Could Talk is really two stories in one; there's the love story at the narrative's core, giving the film much of its tonal qualities, and on the surface, there's a socio-political protest, which provides most of the main plot points.

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