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Kelli Weston

Look and See

By Kelli Weston
January 17, 2023
Eyewitness: with Saint Omer, Alice Diop offers a brilliant examination of all that cannot be elucidated about the “clawing duality that haunts so many Black people the world over”

Last Exit

By Kelli Weston
June 28, 2021
Magic kingdom: Zola is an effortlessly funny and dark fable of a Black woman seeking escape from life’s monotony

Short Takes: Midnight Traveler

By Kelli Weston
September 24, 2019
Hassan Fazili’s poetic account of his family’s desperate search for asylum is cinema as political act

Feeling Seen: Midnight in Paris

By Kelli Weston
April 2, 2019
Big night: Midnight in Paris documents the run-up to prom night at a majority-black public school, and finds promise in the banal