The read
Critics rate it 23 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
Adapted from Kahlil Joseph’s renowned video art installation, BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions is a distinctive cinematic experience that mirrors the sonic textures of a record album, weaving fiction and history in an immersive journey where the fictionalized figures of W. E. B Du Bois and Marcus Garvey join artists, musicians, Joseph’s family, and even Twitter chats, in a vision for black consciousness.
Ratings
IMDb6.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Metacritic92/100
Critics rate it 23 points higher than audiences do.
1 audience votes
Key crew
- Kahlil JosephDirector
- Kahlil JosephWriter
- Saidiya HartmanWriter
- Irvin HuntWriter
- Onye AnyanwuWriter
- Kristen Adele CalhounWriter
- Christina SharpeWriter
- Madebo FatundeWriter
- Kaneza SchaalWriter
- KleinOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Kaneza SchaalYoung W.E.B. Du Bois & Funmilayo Akachukwu
- Hope GiselleLady
- Shaunette Renée WilsonShayla Morris & Sarah
- Tony OkungbowaThe Rum Tycoon
- Zora CasebereMax
- Peter Jay FernandezW.E.B. Dubois
- Penny Johnson JeraldShirley Graham Du Bois
- John TijaniRobert
- Tony TambiSana
- Ama K. AbebreseFunmilayo Ransome-Kuti
- Noel ArthurDesmond
- Alzo SladeBLKNWS Anchor
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Themes
art exhibitionambiguous