Carla Renata
I love, love love movies, watching them and discussing them...thus the birth of The Curvy Film Critic!!! Host/Producer/FilmCritic,Carla Renata is a member of such esteemed organizations as Critics Choice Association (Co-President Documentary Branch and Board Member), African American Film Critics Association and Online Association of Female Film Critics. My op-eds or features have been seen in Variety , RogerEbert.com, The Wrap The Cherry Picks, as well as being a frequent Guest Contributor to Fox 11-LA, Good Day LA, ET Live!, Turner Classic Movies, The Cherry Picks, The Stream Team (Beond TV) ITV, Fox Soul's The Black Report, The ListTV and more. Catch my reviews on The Curvy Critic with Carla Renata - LIVE!!! Sundays 5pm PST via You Tube or Facebook Live. If you like what you read please shout me out and subscribe to The Curvy Critic on YouTube. You can chat with me across all social media platforms @TheCurvyCritic and as always, thanks for supporting a sista'
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Coming Attractions, Documentary Film Review, entertainment, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Sundance Film Festival
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project is Revelatory and Necessary
What I loved most is her verbal homage to the Black woman and how we can deal with and endure almost anything thrown own way - it's part of our…
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All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt is a Cinematic Generational Journey of Sound
Restrained dialogue coupled with subtle and powerful performances from Sheila Atim, Moses Ingram and Zainab Jah, Jackson assists in employing the power of touch to communicate what evades spoken language.…
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Priscilla Proves Fairy Tales Come True Yet Have a Spin Cycle in Real Life
Cailee Spaeny perfectly straddles the line of being a young, introverted woman away from home to a mother/wife trying to navigate being thrown into a world of celebrity chaos all…
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Jeffrey Wright Shatters Stereotypes in Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction
Jeffrey Wright straddles the lines of comedy and drama as the glue literally holding everyone together as a lonely genius who can't seem to figure out how to connect with…
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AFI Film Festival, Coming Attractions, Documentary Film Review, entertainment, Film Festivals, Film Reviews
Tyler Perry’s Destiny and Dreams are Woven by Being Maxine’s Baby
Bekele and Ortiz don't shy away from personal moments revealing emotional and physically challenging wounds from an abusive father, breaking that cycle with his own son, while coming to the…
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Awkwafina and Sandra Oh Triumph with Zany Shenanigans in Quiz Lady Comedy
Sandra Oh and Awkwafina compliment each other's strength effortlessly making Quiz Lady absolutely hysterical with a dark realistic edge that siblings and parents all over the globe will recognize while…
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AFI Film Festival, Coming Attractions, Documentary Film Review, entertainment, Film Festivals, Film Reviews
Roger Ross Williams Eloquently Reveals We Are Stamped From The Beginning
In 1860, Mississippi Senate Davis on the floor of the United States Senate opposed a bill funding education for Black people. To justify this, Davis crafted a made up fairytale…
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Leave The World Behind Is Eerily Close To Home – AFI 2023
Eerily reminiscent to what our current world affairs are, it suffices to say that this Barack and Michelle Obama produced psychological thriller will leave audiences stressed out, on edge and…
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Bobi Wine: The People’s President Against All Odds and Regimes
Bobi Wine: The People's President not only documents a rising leader and struggles to rise above the political noise in Uganda, but focuses on a family and wife who maintain…
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Nyad Proves One is Never Too Old To Chase a Dream
After 52 hours, 200,000 strokes, five attempts and 35 years, Diana Nyad showed the world a life well lived like a diamond which is just a lump of coal that…
