All Day and a Night

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Dave J This is a great movie. Produced well with excellent directing. The acting was grade A and was obviously a movie that really put the East Bay Area culture out there. This is by far a must see if you are from the Bay Area. It also represented California Prison system in an accurate light. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/21/23 Full Review iago g Péssimas atuações. Sem efeitos de fogo apesar de se tratar um de um incêndio. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member It took you on a journey that so many of us have experienced that others cannot understand. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Audience Member Absolute must see movie! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Gritty, gripping. Great acting from strong cast. Attention to detail particularly in prison scenes. Hope you enjoy it and, more importantly, hope it "moves" you as it did I. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member I have to confess that 10 minutes in, the accents, slangs, and nicknames had me defeated and I simply cannot follow this original Netflix film without the aid of subtitles. Which aptly reflects how I am so not this film's target audience. Set in Oakland, California, the film begins with a brutal murder executed by Jahkor, a baby-faced, slightly built but expressionless young man played by Ashton Sanders who we last saw as Chiron in Moonlight. Next he is sent down for life imprisonment without a word of remorse or explanation. The rest of the film then intercuts flashbacks that slowly teases out his upbringing and motivations with his new, precarious life in jail. This structure supposedly lends the film an aura of intrigue and ambitious artistry, but writer-director Joe Robert Cole, who's best known as the co-writer of Black Panther, does not follow it through with anything that delivers on this promising start. What then unfolds is essentially a rather convention story that's part gang drama, part family drama, with an underlying socio-political statement about the ghettoization and discrimination of African-Americans who had to turn to a life of crime to survive. Even though Jeffrey Wright headlines the cast, his role is no more than a glorified cameo in the background and it's Sanders who's the lead, but his character's voice-over commentary, which I'd argue permeates enigmatically but unnecessarily throughout the film, is flatly delivered, while his expressionless portrayal left me unconvinced of his conversion from rapper-gangsta wannabe to cold-blooded killer in the final reel; and the less said about the intricate double-crossing and betrayals that completely went over my head, the better. It's entirely possible that there's an audience out there for this but I don't think I am one of them. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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