The Mangrove – 9

Exhilarating. The story combines George Floyd and the Chicago 7 in 1970 London, and I was stunned at the end to learn it was also based on a true story. Steve McQueen creates a foreign world–a community of Caribbean immigrants in Notting Hill–and populates it with people we believe in and come to care deeply about. The triumph of hard-working, disadvantaged Blacks over an ingrained, abusive, and in some cases rotten, system of white privilege makes for stirring drama, while the reggae soundtrack keeps things just joyful enough to pull you through it. I only hope that the next four installments of Small Axe make me feel as good.

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