Films and Showtimes

Blindspotting

• Starring: Daveed Diggs, Rafael Casal, Ethan Embry
• Director: Carlos López Estrada
• Genre(s): Drama, Comedy
• Rating: R
• Running Time: 95 min.

Collin (Daveed Diggs) must make it through his final three days of probation for a chance at a new beginning. He and his troublemaking childhood best friend, Miles (Rafael Casal), work as movers, and when Collin witnesses a police shooting, the two men’s friendship is tested as they grapple with identity and their changed realities in the rapidly-gentrifying neighborhood they grew up in.

"Blindspotting moves at a brisk pace and raises the dramatic stakes with each scene; director Estrada has a masterful touch for pacing."

"Like all great movies, Blindspotting is a force to be reckoned with and wrestled with. No matter where you land in your assessment, your expectations are guaranteed to be shattered."

"Estrada has made a vibrant film, one popping with ideas and ideals as it presents a vivid and complicated Oakland."

"A spirited, thoughtful, thoroughly entertaining valentine to a city and its still-unfolding history, and a bracing reminder that two things can be true at the same time."

"See the movie, for its urgency, for its performances, and for the vibrant portrait of a community being erased in the names of progress and profit."

"Superb and daring ... a thrilling, riotous, language-drunk elegy and celebration for this most unfixed of cities."

"'Blindspotting' will go down as one of the good things by which 2018 will be remembered. It's a serious work of passion, intuition and artistic intelligence."

"Funny, vibrant, insightful, tragic, achingly timely, and yet with an underlying message about empathy that is timeless, Blindspotting may be the summer's most essential movie."

"It’s wild and singular, often beautiful, a feast and feat of self-definition through verbal dexterity. It’s shaking with laughter, teeming with insights and tense as hell when the police roll up. "

"Over 95 minutes, Blindspotting builds tension like a simmering cauldron on the verge of boiling over. Its themes of racial prejudice, class conflict, friendship and loyalty find a voice that’s both disarmingly funny and heartbreakingly tragic. "