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A campus culture war between Blacks and whites at a predominantly white school comes to a head when the staff of a humor magazine stages an offensive Halloween party.
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Justin Simien
STARRING Tyler James Williams, Tessa Thompson, Kyle Gallner, Teyonah Parris, Brandon P Bell, Marque Richardson, Brittany Curran, & Justin Dobies
"...it is as smart and fearless a debut as I have seen from an American filmmaker in quite some time: knowing but not snarky, self-aware but not solipsistic, open to influence and confident in its own originality. It’s a clever campus comedy that juggles a handful of hot potatoes — race, sex, privilege, power — with elegant agility...You want to see this movie, and you will want to talk about it afterward, even if the conversation feels a little awkward."
- A.O. Scott (The New York Times)
"This alternately thoughtful and hilarious comedy of campus manners is the bracingly candid brainchild of first-time filmmaker Justin Simien, who has created that rarity in American society: a movie that simultaneously sends up the national “conversation about race” while advancing the conversation itself."
- Ann Hornaday (The Washington Post)
