Body Brokers Review: Drug Abuse Is Big Business for More Than Just the Dealers Body Brokers Review: Drug Abuse Is Big Business for More Than Just the Dealers
Director John Swab survived drug addiction to share this shocking exposé of how opportunists are exploiting a loophole in recovery programs.
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Running time: Running time: 113 MIN.
Courtesy of Vertical Entertainment
Of all the dramas made about substance abuse, “Body Brokers” is the first I can recall about the “treatment industry” itself, that multibillion-dollar sector dedicated to helping hard-drug users kick the habit, and its conclusion is startling: Addiction is a veritable money machine for doctors, therapists and pharmaceutical companies alike, a substantial number of whom thrive not on recovery but on repeat business. The shadier among them rely on low-level recruiters, or “body brokers,” to keep the system supplied with souls in need of saving or e
Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga play Black women in 1920s New York, navigating the color line from opposite sides in Rebecca Hall s adaptation of the Harlem Renaissance novel.
Exquisite performances from Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga provide the pulsing, emotionally heightened center to
Passing, Rebecca Hall s assured move behind the camera, adapted with great sensitivity from the 1929 novel by Harlem Renaissance author Nella Larsen. We re all of us passing for something or other, aren t we? muses Thompson s melancholy character Irene Redfield. This is a dreamily atmospheric evocation of 1920s New York, its bursts of Jazz Age exuberance offset by the contained threat of people being unmasked. It tells an intimate story of two women on either side of the color line while undertaking an intersectional exploration of identity in relation to race, gender, class and sexuality.
Passing Review: Rebecca Hall s Subtle, Provocative Directorial Debut Passing Review: Rebecca Hall s Subtle, Provocative Directorial Debut
A superbly performed study of racialized longing and feminine dissatisfaction in 1920s New York, lit by searing intelligence and compassion.
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Director: Rebecca Hall
With: Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga, André Holland, Alexander Skarsgård, Bill Camp, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Antoinette Crowe-Legacy, Ashley Ware Jenkins.
Running time: Running time: 98 MIN.
Eduard Grau
It starts in sweltering heat; it ends in freezing weather. And in between, as the temperature gradually drops, Rebecca Hall’s “Passing,” based on Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel, calmly brings the diffuse racial landscape of prohibition-era New York City into crystalline, gorgeously shot focus. This radically intimate exploration of the desperately fraught concept of “passing” being Black but pretending to be white ought to b