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Dear White People
The plot is based on four black students that attend Ivy League College. There they see a black-face party held by white students. So Samantha White gets an idea and starts her radio show as “Dear White People”.
22 April 1980, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
14 August 1953
2 June 1954, San Mateo, California, USA
23 October 1985, San Diego, California, USA
9 October 1992, Westchester County, New York, USA
13 January 1985, Dallas, Texas, USA
June 18, 2016
A dagger-sharp satire, a film filled end-to-end with tiny sticks of dynamite, each lit carefully with a gleeful smirk.
December 11, 2015
It's witty, boisterous and immensely likeable, but don't mistake its considerable charm and slick elegance for superficiality.
December 31, 2015
Dear White People is too smart for its own good.
March 21, 2017
A brilliant piece of writing from a very thoughtful and humorous director.
March 04, 2016
It is smart, funny and provocative without being rude, even if some of the actual events and behaviours depicted are shocking. The film itself is not the shocker, the things it says about how we see each other is the embarrassment.
January 05, 2015
Even as the jokes cut deep, Dear White People doesn't hesitate to get real.
June 21, 2016
Dear White People offers up some droll and relevant observations on the commodification of race and ensures that Justin Simien is a filmmaker to watch.
January 05, 2015
The best moments get to the heart of Simien's thesis that what is supposed to be post-racial America isn't all that much different from what came before.
January 05, 2015
Screenplay is tight, funny, smart and insightful, and [the] direction has just enough indie feel without becoming too self-conscious or preachy.
November 07, 2014
The pitch on Dear White People is that it's "Do the Right Thing for the Obama generation," which is both an oversell and a disservice to Justin Simien's witty satire about race relations on a fictional Ivy League campus.
January 05, 2015
Where it scores big is its wealth of ideas-visual, emotional, cultural-and its deep well of bitter, voice-of-experience rage
January 05, 2015
A timely and important look at black identity and how it's informed by by stereotypes in the media
