The Hate U Give
Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she’s torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her truth.
19 May 1969, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, USA
12 December 1970, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
13 March 1972, Chicago, Illinois, USA
November 01, 2018
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.
October 21, 2018
The rare racial drama that will detonate the complacency of even those who are drawn to see it. It's that good, that searching, that fierce in its humanity.
October 12, 2018
The movie is both honest and humane, as well as hopeful.
November 01, 2018
The Hate U Give is equally an American race relations study and coming-of-age story, interweaving the two in indivisible fashion.
November 02, 2018
The brilliance of the construction of the is how it forces us to see everything through Starr's eyes
October 22, 2018
While the film simplifies the story somewhat, it never loses its heart, the brilliant emerging of Starr into her own voice and pride in the community that lifts her up.
October 12, 2018
Tillman has an excellent touch for the quietly impactful scenes with Starr and her family, as well as the news footage-style depictions of marches and protests that go sideways...
November 02, 2018
Amandla Stenberg is a relevation in this powerful and relevant, must-see drama. [Full review in Spanish]
October 31, 2018
The story is eventful and tempestuous, and Amandla Stenberg (playing Starr) is an ideal teen-drama lead - radiant yet wholly believable.
October 12, 2018
It's so gripping to watch-as well as being, in places, just delightfully funny-that you never feel you're being preached to. It picks you up in one place and sets you down in another.
November 01, 2018
The Hate U Give is an important film; it understands the suffering poor communities go through, and how economic circumstances can enflame racial tensions.
October 12, 2018
The filmmakers understand their characters so thoroughly that the insights seem to grow organically from their experiences. This is American studio filmmaking at its finest.
