Green Book
Academy Award × 3
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Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book.
What critics thought
A crowd-pleasing road movie carried by two committed performances, Green Book drew genuinely warm responses from audiences while dividing critics along a fault line that matters: whether its approach to race is humanizing or a comfortable white-savior fantasy dressed up as buddy-film uplift. The film's Best Picture win sharpened that debate, and its reputation has not settled since.
“there's something so deeply right about this movie, so true to the time depicted and so welcome in this moment; so light in its touch, so properly respectful of its characters, and so big in its spirit, the movie acquires a glow. It achieves that glow slowly, but by the middle and certainly by the end, it's there, the sense of something magical happening, on screen and within the audience.”
Mick LaSalle·San Francisco Chronicle
“The movie gets darker as the journey goes further South, and as the myriad indignities and humiliations mount. But our investment in the characters rarely flags, thanks to Mortensen and Ali and a director who is interested in cleanly and efficiently delivering a story worth hearing.”
Steve Pond·TheWrap
“the white savior trope with the story of a bigot's redemption”
Salon
Genres
Biography, Comedy, Drama
Cast & Crew
DirectorPeter Farrelly
StarringViggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini, Sebastian Maniscalco, Dimiter D. Marinov
ComposerKris Bowers
Green Book
Academy Award × 3
Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book.
What critics thought
A crowd-pleasing road movie carried by two committed performances, Green Book drew genuinely warm responses from audiences while dividing critics along a fault line that matters: whether its approach to race is humanizing or a comfortable white-savior fantasy dressed up as buddy-film uplift. The film's Best Picture win sharpened that debate, and its reputation has not settled since.
“there's something so deeply right about this movie, so true to the time depicted and so welcome in this moment; so light in its touch, so properly respectful of its characters, and so big in its spirit, the movie acquires a glow. It achieves that glow slowly, but by the middle and certainly by the end, it's there, the sense of something magical happening, on screen and within the audience.”
Mick LaSalle·San Francisco Chronicle
“The movie gets darker as the journey goes further South, and as the myriad indignities and humiliations mount. But our investment in the characters rarely flags, thanks to Mortensen and Ali and a director who is interested in cleanly and efficiently delivering a story worth hearing.”
Steve Pond·TheWrap
“the white savior trope with the story of a bigot's redemption”
Salon
Genres
Biography, Comedy, Drama
Cast & Crew
DirectorPeter Farrelly
StarringViggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini, Sebastian Maniscalco, Dimiter D. Marinov
ComposerKris Bowers
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