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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