59
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7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- In this intense twist on the American Dream, director Andrew Dosunmu vividly captures the pulsating dynamic of New York city's pan-African community, a robust aggregation that subsists amid an often hostile foreign environment.
- 75Boston GlobeWesley MorrisBoston GlobeWesley MorrisWith Dosunmu, African culture thrives in a demographically shifting but historically African-American part of town. If the idea is that Nollywood could work in Manhattan, this is the director who can show us how.
- 70Village VoiceErnest HardyVillage VoiceErnest HardyTold in an elliptical style with a pacing and jagged rhythms that take some getting used to, the thrust and power of the film lies in its poetic imagery.
- 63Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenThe script simply isn't in the same league as the images that Andrew Dosunmu and the gifted cinematographer Bradford Young have fashioned.
- Mr. Dosunmu seems to have directed all his actors to pause before delivering lines, giving a languor to the film that comes to feel studied.
- 40Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles TimesIn its portrait of a Restless City the film is strangely inert and feels like the work of image-makers, not storytellers.