Big Screen Highlights – Beale Street does romantic drama in a list for all tastes

These Valentine releases celebrate lovers of love, black comedy, grim hope, frozen horizons, fake physics and simple gore.
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Kiki Lane and Stephan James enchanted with each other in If Beale Street Could Talk.

Valentine’s Day is a key launch date for movies in the US and we duly follow suit. There is a heap of mainstream films crashing onto the market, but most of them won’t inspire couples in a romantic mood. 

Best hope there is probably If Beale Street Could Talk, an indy US film about a family’s attempt to have a wrongly charged young Black man given the justice he deserves. It was directed by Barry Jenkins who co-wrote and directed Moonlight, and based on a book by the illuminating and wise James Baldwin. That is what we call a pedigree. 

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