Queen & Slim

Queen & Slim can be very simply described as Bonnie & Clyde for the Black Lives Matter generation, and the film is very aware of that comparison.

You might not want to subject yourself to its harshness, but Queen & Slim is a well-crafted catharsis.

Everything here is urgent, both in story and in theme, and no matter how often you've found yourself rooting for cinema's romantic outlaws, these are two you won't forget.

Things go from annoying to tense to frightening to deadly very quickly. Now Slim and Queen, who were not even going to have a second date, are bound together on the run from the law.

I did really enjoy a lot of the performances, and the cinematography, but some scenes did not sit well with me and went so over the top...

Some great things are done in this movie, especially how it was shot and some of the dialogue...but I felt it was mostly highly unnecessary, and in actuality, I wouldn't have minded a different ending...

In the end, there's a great love and an aching tragedy that'll sit with you for a few days, in the ways we Americans prefer, like the haunting melancholy of a favorite country song. And incandescent acting, by Brits being 'Muricans.

It unfolds predictably, but the beauty of which Queen and Slim's relationship is built had us all rooting for them in the film's closing moments.

"From whence does fulfillment come?" Sumney wonders, and Queen & Slim is at its best when it paints portraits of black love and black resistance as answers to that question.

The film's gift is to let us move and breathe with [Queen and Slim] in the intimate quiet of their own indeterminate world.