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âCharm City Kings,â âBabyteethâ and Other Hidden Streaming Gems
You may have missed these under-the-radar movies this year. Nowâs your chance to catch up.
Jahi DiâAllo Winston plays Mouse, the hero of âCharm City Kings,â directed by Angel Manuel Soto.Credit.William Gray/HBO Max
Dec. 24, 2020
As 2020 sputters to its conclusion and film critics devise their year-end best-of lists (Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scottâs are here), the customary consensus begins to form around a handful of widely beloved titles: âFirst Cow,â âNever Rarely Sometimes Always,â âBeanpole,â âMartin Eden,â and the like. But a wide variety of at-home viewing options made this a particularly rich year for independent cinema, so in that spirit, this monthâs selection of hidden streaming gems focuses solely on the films of 2020 â from heartfelt indie dramas to searing documentaries to, yes, a thriller about a man and his po
Movies about fighting for safe Black spaces stood out in 2020
Movies about fighting for safe Black spaces stood out in 2020
Mangrove, Lovers Rock and The 40-Year-Old Version spoke to each other and 2020 in the ways their characters search for safe spaces By Radheyan Simonpillai
Letitia Wright and Malachi Kirby lead a protest scene from Mangrove.
In Mangrove, the opening movie from Steve McQueen’s rousing Small Axe anthology, is about Britain’s Black Caribbean community fight for a space to call their own.
The space
, in this narrative lifted from a true story, is a West Indian restaurant in London’s Notting Hill neighbourhood. Mangrove opened in 1968, and endured repeated raids and unwarranted harassment from a racist police force bent on shutting the community’s social spot down.