Daniel Kaluuya and big-screen newcomer Jodie Turner-Smith (MissJodie) play Ohioans whose lives are upended after a deadly encounter with a bad cop in QueenAndSlim. Read the review:
is a serious nonstarter — and an intriguing jumping-off point for a story. In the green-tinged light of a Cleveland diner, the two Tinder-linked strangers can't connect. She's an uptight lawyer and an atheist; he's a shoe salesman and a believer, flashing a go-with-the-flow grin. Before digging into his plate of eggs, he prays with gratitude to the God he trusts , while she points out that the waitress screwed up his order.
Their goal is to get out of the country — to escape the white America where, as Queen puts it, they're now criminals who would only become property of the state. Even so, a white couple prove instrumental to their plan. It's hardly the first time that a female character has had to run for her life while looking as fetching as possible. You could argue that Queen's new uniform — like the vintage turquoise Catalina she borrows from Uncle Earl — is a badge of the non-mainstream world she now inhabits.
At its strongest, the dialogue makes incisive observations without fuss — as when Earl compares the title characters' plight to that of runaway slaves — but often it underlines its points and plants its narrative seeds all too plainly. In their mildly contentious first conversation, Queen tells Slim that photos "aren't just about vanity — they're proof of your existence," and you know that the taking of a photograph will become crucial at a later point.
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