Congrats for winning the biggest prize a film can achieve but I don’t see it. It’s good, has a good leading performance, and has a good handle with paying homage to certain aspects of the famed screwball comedy aesthetic. The breakneck editing drives up anxiety levels but yet also does damage with story consistency. Moving from one moment to the next leaves you breathless and unable to catch up with its bouncing off the walls. The ambition should be revered…

Nothing gets as worse than being pretentious with a story that deals with black trauma. It’s very easy to depend on the terrifying moments of racism and white supremacy than actually telling an engaging story that goes further than a slideshow of brutal physical and mental torture. The POV style direction and cinematography is a nice gimmick; that’s the biggest compliment i can give it. Other times, it feels like a Fallout style dialogue prompts with the delivery of the…

Engaging in commentary on police brutality and the fear that African Americans have to live with every day under the blanket of white supremacy by using a Groundhog Day narrative not only shows how out of touch this Oscar nominee is but it also disrespectful to the lives that have been lost over these circumstances. The end credits show a constant stream of African American victims of police brutality trying to promote itself as a memorial to those names; in actuality,…