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Queen & Slim

Queen & Slim

2019
2 hr 11 min
7.138
While on a forgettable first date together in Ohio, a black man and a black woman are pulled over for a minor traffic infraction. The situation escalates, with sudden and tragic results.

Reviews

  • Stephen Campbell

    _**A powerful socio-political statement disguised as a road-movie**_ >_We'd never talked about it, but I figured you knew the rules. If a cop stopped, you didn't run, you didn't talk back, you didn't ever, ever get angry. White people could do th...

  • SWITCH.

    To its credit, 'Queen & Slim' features some pretty stellar performances and great camerawork but has to work against the mammoth influence of its writing and pacing to make something memorable, and ultimately fails. It's a shame because Matsoukas sh...

  • Peter McGinn

    Queen & Slim was entertaining overall, and its social messaging that might have turned off viewers of a certain political world view worked for me. It will not make my greatest movie list, but it held my interest. Not because of its theme or message...

  • CinemaSerf

    The eponymous couple - Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith have hit it off after their first date and are driving when they are pulled over by a traffic cop. Quite quickly, things spiral out of control with both her and the cop shot - the latter, ...