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Beauty
Directed by
Andrew Dosunmu
R
2022
1h 35m
Drama
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Romance
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4.2
22%
13%
4.8
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A gifted young Black woman struggles to maintain her voice and identity after she’s offered a lucrative recording contract.
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Cast of Beauty
Gracie Marie Bradley
Beauty
Aleyse Shannon
Jasmine
Niecy Nash
Beauty's Mother
Giancarlo Esposito
Beauty's Father
Kyle Bary
Abel
Micheal Ward
Cain
Sharon Stone
Colonizer
Sarah Stavrou
Jasmine's Mother
James Urbaniak
Irv Merlin
Andre Ozim
Preacher
Larena Danielle Winn
Mediocre Looking White Woman
Atibon Nazaire
Music Producer
Hollie Wright
Choreographer
Joey Bada$$
Sammy
Aaron Morton
Bartender
Cory Stonebrook
Extra (uncredited)
Andrew Dosunmu
Director / Executive Producer
Lena Waithe
Writer / Producer
Rishi Rajani
Executive Producer
Carver Karaszewski
Co-Producer
Beauty Ratings & Reviews
IndieWire
Kristen Lopez
Dosunmu's airless directing and Waithe's thin script only amount to loud allegory that never goes anywhere and drowns out any compelling ideas that might be worth singing.
TheMovieReport.com
Michael Dequina
Ironically, for a story revolving around identity, there is not a solid one in evidence here.
The Playlist
Leslie Byron Pitt
The most frustrating thing about "Beauty" is it's a film that reminds you of other films that are far more compelling... However, the slightness and muddled storytelling of "Beauty" mar a film which at times feels it has something to say.
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Diandra Reviews
By all means, Beauty is a rich, but subtle love story. For all its fanciful editing and music cuts, it is a rather quiet look at someone about to live the life they were always told they were supposed to live. #diandrareviews
Common Sense Media
Jennifer Borget
In Beauty, a movie all about a talented young singer, it's disappointing that the audience never actually gets to hear her sing.
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Betty Jo Tucker
If we could hear star Beauty's songs. I would forgive this movie's wrongs.
Polygon
Robert Daniels
Beauty is a staid, soporific story that swims through shallow narrative waters.
Screen Rant
Ferdosa
Beauty fails due to its weak script, which doesn't provide a steady framework to tell this particular story. The film is all ideas with no substance.
Los Angeles Times
Noel Murray
This semi-true story is ultimately too sketchy to have anything effective to say about Houston, mainstream success or being in the closet. On paper, this movie is really something. Onscreen, it lacks dimension.
Decider
John Serba
It's an experiment that doesn't quite work, an allegory for obvious ideas. It comes off dramatically stiff and overwrought, leaving us with fleeting impressions but not much in the way of solid characters and emotions.
TIME Magazine
Stephanie Zacharek
Beauty ends before it has really dug into anything of consequence. Its heroine, whom we know is headed for trouble, is left stranded in the middle of her own story.
New York Times
Lisa Kennedy
In this lilting, lyrical work, the director Andrew Dosunmu and the writer Lena Waithe mine, mourn and tease the Whitney Houston story. Consider "Beauty" an elegy with an edge, one that touches on faith and financials, love and condemnation.
The Hollywood Reporter
Lovia Gyarkye
Beauty feels too distant, treating its mercurial protagonist just as her mother feared -- like a fantasy.
IONCINEMA.com
Nicholas Bell
Although Bradley surely lives up to her name, Waithe's script is laser focused on her character as an object acted upon, to the degree where Beauty's mild acts of agency are so sudden and so convenient these moments play like soap opera.
Next Best Picture
Dan Bayer
Thanks to the unconventional style, it is often a very involving intellectual exercise. Still, Dosunmu and Waithe have focused too much on engaging the head and too little on engaging the heart.
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