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Dear White People
The movie is about four black students at an Ivy League College. Here, there is a argument about a black-face party thrown by white students. Samatha White begins her radio show “Dear White People” and TV reality show smells gold in Sam’s story and decides to follow it.
23 October 1985, San Diego, California, USA
2 June 1954, San Mateo, California, USA
13 January 1985, Dallas, Texas, USA
2 June 1991, Lester Prairie, Minnesota, USA
June 21, 2016
Dear White People offers up some droll and relevant observations on the commodification of race and ensures that Justin Simien is a filmmaker to watch.
March 04, 2016
It is smart, funny and provocative without being rude, even if some of the actual events and behaviours depicted are shocking. The film itself is not the shocker, the things it says about how we see each other is the embarrassment.
January 05, 2015
Screenplay is tight, funny, smart and insightful, and [the] direction has just enough indie feel without becoming too self-conscious or preachy.
December 11, 2015
It's witty, boisterous and immensely likeable, but don't mistake its considerable charm and slick elegance for superficiality.
March 21, 2017
A brilliant piece of writing from a very thoughtful and humorous director.
December 31, 2015
Dear White People is too smart for its own good.
January 05, 2015
A timely and important look at black identity and how it's informed by by stereotypes in the media
June 18, 2016
A dagger-sharp satire, a film filled end-to-end with tiny sticks of dynamite, each lit carefully with a gleeful smirk.
November 07, 2014
The pitch on Dear White People is that it's "Do the Right Thing for the Obama generation," which is both an oversell and a disservice to Justin Simien's witty satire about race relations on a fictional Ivy League campus.
January 05, 2015
Where it scores big is its wealth of ideas-visual, emotional, cultural-and its deep well of bitter, voice-of-experience rage
January 05, 2015
The best moments get to the heart of Simien's thesis that what is supposed to be post-racial America isn't all that much different from what came before.
January 05, 2015
Even as the jokes cut deep, Dear White People doesn't hesitate to get real.