It was the most important film released in America that year, and deserved all the praise heaped on it. In New York City in the early 70s, things are going pretty well for 19-year-old black woman Tish Rivers (KiKi Layne). The hard realities of a society where blackness is proof of criminal guilt is juxtaposed in Jenkins' film with the elegiac passion of Tish and Fonny's love. Soft browns and greens evoke the mood of 70s New York, and the film effortlessly flicks back and forth in time. Elizabeth Banks was his true love Wild Style, Will Arnett the impossibly conceived Batman, and all reprise their roles in this sequel which involves a mysterious attack of Duplo (baby Lego).

Source: Irish Independent February 08, 2019 02:33 UTC