cricket30 Review of If Beale Street Could Talk

If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)

Lots of people have been wondering why . . .

[9/10 · 24 January 2019]

. . . IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK is presently spilling its beans about New York City's "dirty little secret" from the 1900s here in our Modern 21st Century. Set during a time when most officers of the NYPD belonged to "the clan," and the city's "Justice System" was as rigged as an Electoral College Election, viewers puzzle over what all of this has to do with the Here & Now. Is the fact that a self-proclaimed "W*?$3 Nationalist" now currently occupies America's Oval Office somehow relevant to BEALE STREET's on-going release? Does the detail that this burnt orange bozo's "character" was molded by a sire that spent his Youth organizing the Big Apple for the clan have any bearing on BEALE STREET's case? BEALE STREET promotes the theory that the nut doesn't fall far from the tree. Could it be that the instigator of the Racist "Birther" Movement--the jerk who wanted the irrefutably exonerated "Central Park Five" executed anyway for acting too "uppity"--would be unlikely to sell many of his infamous Red hats on BEALE STREET?