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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Film ThreatSabina Dana PlasseFilm ThreatSabina Dana PlasseAlthough the main narrative thrust may seem redundant for the genre, this perspective makes this well worth watching. This is especially true thanks to good humor, interesting family and community dynamics, and the lead’s convictions which have been decently constructed.
- 75Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MoorePut The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster on your list of must-see/won’t-be-here-long summer thrillers, crowd-pleasing movie comfort food that embraces an old formula and manages to do something smart, insightful and topically relevent with it.
- 75RogerEbert.comPeyton RobinsonRogerEbert.comPeyton RobinsonThe Angry Black Girl and Her Monster is a soulful, bloodied cry for control.
- 70Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzArizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzThe Angry Black Girl and Her Monster is a horror movie, no doubt. It’s also an intelligent one, with the courage to challenge its audience, to make it see the horrors not just in the monster, but in the societal inequities that ultimately created him. Thankfully, Story isn’t afraid to rework a classic.
- 70Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonWall Street JournalJohn AndersonYou can hear many an echo emanating from The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster, sometimes to the point of cacophony. But there’s music here, too, and it is more than a requiem.
- 60VarietyMurtada ElfadlVarietyMurtada ElfadlUsing horror to satirize systemic racial failures in American society is a bold goal, but with its unbelievable final resolution, the film falters somewhat in execution.
- Fixing horror in the Black body is a tricky business, and “The Angry Black Girl” stumbles in the same way its ancestor, “Candyman” (1992), did.
- 40Los Angeles TimesSarah-Tai BlackLos Angeles TimesSarah-Tai BlackWhile ideas concerning the awakening of the dead are rife with transformational potential, in The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster the means used to materialize them leave much to be desired.