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Brooke Obie

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People We Meet on Vacation (2026) 75% EDIT “Give up your dream job and return to the site of your trauma, so he knows it’s real. This tired rom-com represents the worst of the genre that reinforces for women that their lives have no meaning or depth unless they commit to a man. ” – Black Girl Watching Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% EDIT “His franchise simply perpetuates the colonialism, destruction, and counter-revolution that he pretends to critique. And that makes James Cameron his franchise’s own worst enemy and its true villain.” – Black Girl Watching Dec 31, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% EDIT “With a script this bad, For Good was doomed from the start, sacrific[ing] character development, story, and...political integrity. It merely gestures at anti-fascism. The lesser evil wins, but it's still evil.” – Black Girl Watching Nov 25, 2025 Full Review Palestine 36 (2025) 100% EDIT “Palestine36 shows not only the birth of the occupation, but also the birth of resistance. When people are occupied, resistance is justified. A gorgeous, sprawling, heartbreaking epic that shows the true history and resilience of a people who will be free.” – Black Girl Watching Oct 28, 2025 Full Review The Perfect Neighbor (2025) 99% EDIT “Marion County police documented in great detail their own incompetence, their own inadequacies, their ongoing failures. If it doesn’t stir us to abolition then it’s just another in a long list of bodycam snuff videos of Black life and who does that serve?” – Black Girl Watching Oct 28, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% EDIT “Grace potentially hooking up with a Black Peeping Tom in the woods as evidence of her descent into breakdown is prob-lem-a-tic! for a plethora of the age-old racist stereotypes showcased in the film that gave rise to the KKK, The Birth of a Nation. ” – Black Girl Watching Oct 28, 2025 Full Review If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) 92% EDIT “An exploration of generational mother-daughter wounds with palpable rage, grief and resentment. But "why is this character Black and what does this mean for the story?" is a series of questions I’d like more writer/directors to ponder in development. ” – Black Girl Watching Oct 28, 2025 Full Review After the Hunt (2025) 37% EDIT “There are concepts of a good movie in here and Roberts and Garfield are particularly great, but After the Hunt does not earn its runtime and the coda of the film is a disaster that only exists to fulfill the promise of the title. ” – Black Girl Watching Oct 28, 2025 Full Review Opus (2025) 39% EDIT “Opus is just digital tape and runtime. It’s not particularly scary or interesting, it offers nothing new to say about cults, or vanity journalism as a tool for propaganda, and worse, it says that nothing in an uncompelling way.” – Black Girl Watching Oct 28, 2025 Full Review Master (2022) 75% EDIT “Master doesn’t stick the landing, but it is a good warning for those who believe ascending to the heights of these anti-Black institutions (that were literally built on slavery) will be worth what it costs of your humanity to climb. ” – Black Girl Watching Oct 28, 2025 Full Review Weapons (2025) 93% EDIT “It’s maybe an allegory for addiction; Zach Cregger has talked about being the child of an alcoholic but said "the alcoholic metaphor is not important to me.” I can tell. It’s a horror-comedy about a witch who feeds on children. We should leave it at that.” – Black Girl Watching Oct 28, 2025 Full Review The Skeleton Key (2005) 38% EDIT “The worst horror movie I’ve ever seen. Kate Hudson, you are going to jail! Ehren Kruger won a Razzie for Worst Screenplay for the wrong movie. The Skeleton Key is so devious and underhanded in its anti-Blackness and it should haunt Kruger forever.” – Black Girl Watching Oct 28, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% EDIT “One Fetish After Another: Paul Thomas Anderson’s empty foray into revolutionary ideology and iconography hypersexualizes Black women, leaves much to be desired and simply refuses to end. ” – Black Girl Watching Sep 30, 2025 Full Review The Christophers (2025) 97% EDIT “A heart-warming story of a man in the twilight of his life who finds hope and renewed energy for one last hurrah in a pupil and teacher he never saw coming.” – Black Girl Watching Sep 20, 2025 Full Review BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions (2025) 100% EDIT “Its African, nonlinear layering of time can make for a bit of a challenging watch to the average viewer, but would make a stunning museum exhibit.” – Black Girl Watching Sep 20, 2025 Full Review The Man in My Basement (2025) 40% EDIT “Corey Hawkins and Willem Dafoe are formidable; Latif’s direction is stylish and the cinematography of the historic Black neighborhood is stunning, but the message of the film seems to be that getting revenge against your oppressors makes you just as bad.” – Black Girl Watching Sep 20, 2025 Full Review My Father's Shadow (2025) 97% EDIT “With stunning cinematography and a compelling, semi-autobiographical script, Akinola Davies Jr. and co-writer Wale Davies set the grief over an absent parent against the backdrop of crumbling hope in a country whose leaders choose power over love.” – Black Girl Watching Sep 20, 2025 Full Review Dinner with Friends (2025) EDIT “As most romantic movies center on sexual partnership, it’s lovely to see a film focus on the work of romance in long-term friendship: the grand gestures, the apologies, the consistencies and the love.” – Black Girl Watching Sep 20, 2025 Full Review The Eyes of Ghana (2025) 94% EDIT “An inspiring opus of not only Kwame Nkrumah’s but Chris Hesse’s life and the urgency of African filmmaking and historical preservation.” – Black Girl Watching Sep 20, 2025 Full Review Hedda (2025) 89% EDIT “It isn’t a love story; it’s a power struggle, and Thompson plays the title role like a runaway train. Hedda is thrilling, fun, tragic, gorgeously shot and DaCosta’s best film to date. ” – Black Girl Watching Sep 20, 2025 Full Review The Truth About Jussie Smollett? (2025) 67% EDIT “Missing surveillance footage winds up like a Rorschach test for the audience, and still shows how Smollett could’ve been telling the truth the whole time. Journalism is the real winner of this doc, and I hope we see more of it.” – Black Girl Watching Sep 6, 2025 Full Review Unknown Number: The High School Catfish (2025) 85% EDIT “This is a documentary about pedophilia and not even the documentarians seem to realize that. You’ll find a more compelling story about this tragedy in The Cut, which includes much of the missing context from this low-rent documentary.” – Black Girl Watching Sep 6, 2025 Full Review Songs from the Hole (2024) 88% EDIT “Part documentary, part visual album, Songs from the Hole is a gorgeous meditation on healing toxic masculinity and breaking generational cycles. It’s thoughtful, it’s searing, it’s painful, and, just like abolition itself, well worth the effort.” – Black Girl Watching Aug 24, 2025 Full Review Highest 2 Lowest (2025) 83% EDIT “Though Alan Fox’s script is the weakest part, Denzel and Rocky still make a lush playground of their characters while the women don’t exist beyond their roles as accessories in Lee's paper bag test visual language. Highest 2 Lowest lands in the middle.” – Black Girl Watching Aug 18, 2025 Full Review The Woman in the Yard (2025) 41% EDIT “Though the ending is a bit sloppy, the beautifully shot & almost great film is still a worthwhile watch as it explores the horrors of grief & mental health. Deadwyler is so close to getting the role that will make this industry stand up and pay attention.” – Black Girl Watching Aug 7, 2025 Full Review
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