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William Shakespeare’s Francesca Noel and Cameron Engels. It’s helmed by a Black filmmaker. And it finds a way to propel a 500-year-old play into the present day. But, fam, R#J is just not a good movie. In fact, it’s pretty horrendous—and right from the start. Williams immediately drops his audience inside an increasingly confusing vortex where his protagonists, two teenagers in an urban neighborhood, exist in today’s world but speak in iambic pentameter, the English poetry style ma...

Premiere: Jan. 30th 7:00 p.m. There are a lot things that make me old, but a version of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet that makes Baz Luhrmann ‘s psychedelic and visionary Romeo + Juliet feel like an old-school, traditionalist take on the material may take the proverbial cake, and while it’s not entirely successful as a film, director Carey Williams’ feature debut, R#J, does do that much. R#J tells the tale of a war brewing between rival houses, but captures it in a new and ...