If Beale Street Could Talk currently has an average rating of 6.8 out of 10 and has been rated by 102 users on our platform.
In matching the newcomer Layne with James, best known for playing Jesse Owens in Race, he has found a pairing whose chemistry charms and bewitches – with every scene we feel more engaged and then enraged when they’re pulled further apart.
Read full review at The Guardian...Fonny and Tish's love is real and enduring -- and a beautiful thing to behold.
Read full review at Common Sense Media...the most sweepingly romantic polemic you’ll ever see, a love story that will make you want to take up arms against a cruel world.
Read full review at EmpireIntense melancholy and blissful romance mask an undercurrent of political outrage in Barry Jenkins’ rhapsodic take on James Baldwin.
Read full review at Little White LiesThe power of individual moments and scenes is undeniable...
Read full review at The Austin Chronicle...a magnificent love story from Moonlight's Barry Jenkins.
Read full review at The Telegraph...Barry Jenkins takes his cues from the source, transforming Baldwin’s evocative vision of young lovers grappling with race and class into a masterful poetic romance... Yet... also maintains his own profound, expressionistic aesthetic...
Read full review at Indie WireFilmen rymmer å ena sidan romantik med passionerad värme, å andra sidan socialrealism med kalla fakta.
Read full review at Dagens NyheterEn sensuell och urtjusigt melankolisk film med sann själ, som lyckas kännas retro, aktuell och tidlös på en och samma gång.
Read full review at Aftonbladet...når kameraet svæver fra scene til scene, bundet sammen af Nicholas Britells Oscar-nominerede, jazzede score, er det svært ikke at overgive sig til det fornemme filmhåndværk.
Read full review at Soundvenue...den förtjänar onekligen att vinna nånting.
Read full review at NöjesguidenEtt vackert foto sveper in kärleksparet i ett drömskt filter...
Read full review at Moviezine...den bästa skådespelarinsatsen kommer inte helt oväntat ifrån den ständigt underskattade Regina King. King spelar Tish mor, en bestämd och tuff kvinna som gör allt för sin dotter.
Read full review at FilmtoppMoonlight-regissören Barry Jenkins nya film om kärlek i ett rasistiskt system smeker sig fram som en melankolisk soulballad.
Read full review at Svt KulturnyheternaDet är omöjligt att inte mäta ”If Beale street could talk” mot den originella ”Moonlight”. Det är samma förföriskt flytande handlag med scenografi, dialog, musik, foto och ansiktsspel...
Read full review at Göteborgs-PostenBanalitet og sødsuppe blandes med hård realisme, montageteknik og næsten dæmonisk ekspressionisme.
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