![Morris From America: "In contemporary film, it’s typical for an African-American character to be the sole person of color in the story, his or her only reason for existence to reveal hidden racism or to make white people uncomfortable with themselves. Black characters rarely get to talk to other black characters. Last year, critic Manohla Dargis suggested a new Bechdel-type test (calling it the DuVernay test) to assess whether films feature 'African Americans and other minorities [who] have fully realized lives rather than serv[ing] as the scenery in white stories.' But even before that, writer Nikesh Shukla suggested his own test, which, to pass, a movie must (1) have at least two black characters, who (2) talk to each other about (3) something other than race." — April Wolfe
For more, read our review of Morris From America.](https://images2.browardpalmbeach.com/imager/u/slideshow/10130276/15_morris-from-america-1-courtesy_of_a24.jpg?cb=1630603771)
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Neither Heaven Nor Earth: "Most war movies try to shock us with hard, brutal, tangible, sick-making images, demanding that we look at the visible proof — the blood and guts and other gore — that results from guns and bombs. In the searching, cogent Neither Heaven Nor Earth, director Clément Cogitore examines the horrors (and futility) of combat from a much different perspective, centering his feature debut on a French unit in Afghanistan whose soldiers inexplicably begin to vanish." — Melissa Anderson
For more, read our review of Neither Heaven Nor Earth.
For more, read our review of Neither Heaven Nor Earth.
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