Go Pretty Darn Good by This was a classic love triangle story, but the main character Ruby had more power than in usual stories of this nature. She was the master of her own destiny. At first I rooted for her original...
Go Common Story but... by movie_luver2013 I was so excited to see this movie. It was good but NOT very realistic in the gritty sense of how things go down. Yes, women wait, pay for lawyers, deal with family drama and dream of him holding...
Go Well done by dobanion684 I thought the movie was very good. The story was not a feel good story so don't expect a Hollywood feel good ending. The film by Ava DuVernay is about a young med student and her incarcerated...
88 Philadelphia Inquirer | Carrie Rickey DuVernay, a low-key director sparing in her use of emotion and music, has made an existential drama that is European in its feel. Read full review
83 Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum This is a tough-minded story of change that happens in almost imperceptibly tiny increments - as true growth so often does in reality. Read full review
75 Slant Magazine | In a cinema landscape where the representation of the black female experience is most visibly explored through the modes of outlandish comedy, unironic melodrama, or not at all, Ava DuVernay's take is a decidedly refreshing one. Read full review
75 The Globe and Mail (Toronto) | Rick Groen Sometimes, the quiet lyricism of DuVernay’s direction seems at odds with the grittiness of the subject matter, like poetry force-fed into prose. Read full review