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In 1990, Wendell B. Harris Jr.’s debut feature Chameleon Street won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, only to disappear soon after, never achieving proper theatrical distribution.

'Chameleon Street' Is a Treasure of Black Cinema That Was Almost Lost Forever

TIFF

In the third act of One Night in Miami, musician Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom, Jr.) asks his good friend Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir) why he became such a serious person.

'One Night in Miami...' Is a Profoundly Relevant Film for Our Modern Times

Columbia Pictures

The cinematic canon is vast and daunting, spanning decades, countries, and various runtimes.

12 Classic Films to Watch on the Criterion Channel

NEON

'Luce' Is a Deceptively Simple Movie About Life's Trickiest Gray Areas

Hulu

Mike Newell's 1994 British romantic comedy Four Weddings and a Funeral is a film about a tight-knit group of somewhat childish friends who suddenly find everyone around them getting married, having children, and moving on with their lives.

Hulu's 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' Series Can't Find the Spirit of the Original Rom-Com

Amazon Studios

Ten years ago, Donald Glover co-wrote, scored and starred in his first feature film, Mystery Team.

Donald Glover's Music Movie 'Guava Island' Is a Curious Blunder, Despite Rihanna

The Rewatch

 Columbia Pictures

Before A Different World came into its own, before Higher Learning and Dear White People critiqued the fraught relationship between Black students and white students at Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs), and before grown-ish, there was School Daze.

How Spike Lee's 'School Daze' Created Film's Most Nuanced Portrait of HBCUs

It was only recently that I realized The Women of Brewster Place has been a staple of my dreams for years, appearing whenever I feel a sense of nostalgia for when I was hungry to understand what it means to be a black woman.

How 'The Women of Brewster Place' Revolutionized the Depiction of Black Women on TV

Sony Pictures

Male directors, and their limited understanding of female sexuality, have been the ones to codify our expectations of contemporary erotic thrillers.

Meg Ryan's 'In the Cut' Is the Most Underrated Erotic Thriller of the 21st Century

Warner Bros./Ambassador Film Distributors

Stop me if you've heard this slasher setup before: There's a large, creepy house with many dark shadows, perfect for jump scares and surprise attacks.