If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) Reviews & Ratings

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If Beale Street Could Talk reviews

If Beale Street Could Talk holds a 6.9/10 average from 1,254 TMDB ratings.

**_Beautifully shot, but emotionally languid_** > **Studs Terkel**: _Did you feel a sense of shame about a heritage that is really so_ rich_, when you accepted the white man's stereotype of yourself?_ > >**James Baldwin**: _I'm afraid that is one of the great dilemmas, one of the_ great _psychological hazards, of being an American Negro. In fact, much more than that. I've seen a great many people go under because of…
— Stephen Campbell (6/10)

This is a beautifully filmed experience; thereafter a sort of emotional torpor sets in and it struggles to make headway in self-made heavy seas. The story, upon which it is based, offers us yards of controversial and harrowing material to work from, and ample scope to develop the characterisations, but somehow this just finds it's way into a cul-de-sac and never really discovers a way out. The cast, especially Regin…
— CinemaSerf (6/10)

After her fiance is falsely imprisoned, a pregnant African-American woman sets out to clear his name and prove his innocence.

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