Any failure to expand into cinema's possibilities is overshadowed by the uniformly strong performances in a four-person cast led by an excellent Kerry Washington.
The movie taps into the core racial issues in modern USA and does that masterfully. If you are willing to overcome your biases in order to see such problem from a different and perhaps enlightening perspective, this movie is for you
At some point you’re tempted to stop following the narrative and start keeping score between husband and wife. It’s a good debate. It just isn’t much of a movie.
The overly finished language and theatrical intensity levels that might be potently effective onstage lose any pretense of naturalism under the camera’s unblinking gaze.
All these “what incredible irony!” moments are designed to…well, I’m not quite sure. The movie’s final line, an appropriation of the dying words of a black man killed by police, is an exploitative and cheap reversal that legitimately addresses precisely nothing.
Perhaps writer Demos-Brown and director Kenny Leon hope to tap into our collective consciences, but it’s difficult to be moved by such hackneyed, all-too convenient storytelling and overwrought sentimentality.
It’s a deafening misfire, like the most unbearable, unwatchable daytime TV soap filled with the most awful self-conscious hamminess, parodic emoting and pointless shouting-at-each-other acting.
This was a play, as as film feels quite boring and disjointed.
Also and it's a surprise; Kerry Washington abuses from the melodrama and the film suffers because of it.
Huge misfire. Netflix is on a bad roll.
Without a doubt one of the biggest waste of times I've ever experienced. Nothing but race propaganda the entire movie. The trailer does not even remotely make this movie seem like what it is.