Emergency

This would've worked better as a short film.

Director Carey Williams and writer K.D. Dávila ably balance the film’s gross-out humor with its commentary on racial double standards...and lead actor RJ Cyler steals the show with movie star charisma.

Director Carey Williams is a gifted multitasker. Emergency never loses the flavour of comedy; it can also be deeply astringent.

The biggest disappointment of Williams’ film... is its unwillingness to disrupt, with full and heavy weight, the exact things that it critiques.

I think it's a really strong film. It's kind of hilarious watching a movie where a passed out girl is treated like she's a suitcase with a nuclear bomb.

The movie benefits from the effectiveness of its pointed satire and the hilariousness of some of its comedic elements.

Emergency intelligently blends impactful social commentary with an occasionally unbalanced dark humor, but it's the extremely tense, captivating, frighteningly realistic story that ultimately grabs the audience's undivided attention.

The tones of Emergency have been at odds with one another up until now, but writer KD Davila eventually favors one side. This is for the best seeing as the film operates much better as an endearing drama than a basic college comedy.

Emergency attempts to prepare the audience for class and cultural differences, and the constant prosecution of Black people in America.

My synopsis doesn’t do justice to the often funny banter that takes place during this potentially deadly misadventure, or the way the humor and the danger reinforce each other.