The Hate U Give

Throughout ( ... ) Starr's choices are rooted in her desire to maintain her dual identities. She stifles righteous rage and ignores threats ( ... ) in order to ( ... ) survive.

It has a long way to go and every minute of it is worth watching.

The Hate U Give features a strong and incredibly moving performance from Amandla Stenberg, who never holds anything back from the audience and never overplays a moment. She's a star in the making.

It's a performance without any posturing -- no mean achievement in these circumstances.

In dealing with all of it, the book character finds her confidence and her voice. But the movie version of The Hate U Give leaves me unsure that its makers ever found theirs.

Though it leans on the genre beats of melodrama to occasionally clunky effect in order to mine the audience's tears, it's impressive how it metabolises these moments of charged emotion in order to make its wider points.

[The Hate U Give] is a faithful adaptation of a powerful book that will hopefully make you want to change the world.

George Tillman Jr. works with a lot of moving parts and manages them with an able hand.

The Hate U Give isnt always an easy pill to swallow by design: Tillman and Wells want to start a conversation. They succeed in their intentions, creating one of the best films of the past decade, and a showcase for Stenberg.

While its ending ties up everything in a perhaps too-neat little bow, the film also stands as one of the most powerful and vital films of the year.