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Chris Wallis
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Creating Second Chances in Maryland
Maryland Second Look Coalition is a group of previously incarcerated individuals, family members of incarcerated people, and justice system advocates working to create second chances in Maryland throu...
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February 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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This review by Robert Daniels is one of the most damning and cutting reviews I’ve read of a modern blockbuster in some time.

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Roger Ebert.om = The entire franchise's inability to balance substance with pleasure crashes into its inept conclusion. In fact, I'm not sure I've hated an ending to a movie more in recent memory than this one. For the purposes of this review, I will not spoil it. But let's just say this film imagines it's living in a different country, nay a different world, than the reality many have experienced. It argues for unearned forgiveness while making rushed, last-second nods to the weight of Black excellence, the fight to gain a seat at the table, and the importance of representation. It not only turns its hero into a Magical Negro. In an effort to soothe white America's anger and hurt, it also asks its hero to grin and figuratively tap dance off screen. Even as Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly anthem "I," a choice meant to illicit joy, adds a declarative note, you can't help but feel icky. This is our Black Captain America? This is our piece of the pie? This movie is anything but brave. It is the most feckless, spineless blockbuster of the last decade, a film in need of burning down the old world before daring to look for the new.
February 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM