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Ina Diane Archer

Review: Us

By Ina Diane Archer
March 26, 2019
Return of the repressed: Jordan Peele's latest throws the audience into a house of mirrors

White Noise

By Ina Diane Archer
July 2, 2018
Boots Riley’s debut feature Sorry to Bother You busts out a satiric surrealism to express a warped racial and economic reality

TCM Diary: Roman Springs and Golden Eyes

By Ina Diane Archer
June 16, 2017
Midlife Gothic: Carson McCullers and Tennessee Williams on the horror of a certain age, as adapted for the big screen

Review: Get Out

By Ina Diane Archer
March 3, 2017
Directed by Jordan Peele of the comedy duo Key and Peele, Get Out is the horror film that we’ve been waiting for

Review: Keanu

By Ina Diane Archer
May 2, 2016
Kitten-core: Comedy Central duo Key & Peele attempt to take their code-switching shtick to the big screen with mixed results

Review: An Oversimplification of Her Beauty

By Ina Diane Archer
March 9, 2013
(Terence Nance, U.S., 2012)

Home and Back Again: The 19th New York African Film Festival (NYAFF)

By Ina Diane Archer
May 4, 2012
Highlights from this year's NYAFF, and a look back at past editions

Review: Red Tails

By Ina Diane Archer
February 27, 2012

Appearing on The Daily Show to discuss Red Tails—a war drama based on the exploits of the 332nd pursuit squadron known as the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African Americans to fly combat for the U.S. military—executive producer…

Review: Pariah

By Ina Diane Archer
November 2, 2011
(Dee Rees U.S., 2011)

Review: The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

By Ina Diane Archer
August 24, 2011
(Göran Hugo Olsson, Sweden, 2011)