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'The Color Purple' Review: Black Excellence Uplifts Fantastic Musical Update of Alice Walker's Novel
A dazzling adaptation full of energy, elevated by its exceptional Black female cast.
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Cooper went full “grad student doing his research paper” mode.
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The cinematic manifesto for every Black creative who was finally recognized in the industry because of white guilt.
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The power of Todd Haynes, baby.
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Seligman and Sennott are a dream team, like Sofia Coppola and Kirsten Dunst.
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If a group of animators who once doodled Cool S's with colored pencils, markers, and crayons as kids designed a movie, it would be this one.
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