I wish I had more to say about Beale Street, but all I can call it is heartbreaking. It filled me with a tension that so many black films fill me with, where I’m waiting for an ultimate, inevitable cruelness to set in, and so paralyzed by that waiting that I watch it more like a horror film. But there is no cruel twist coming. It’s all there from the beginning. And although it is more than anything a story about love and the lengths we go to see that love through, it’s a story about how much longer that length is when your very existence denies you to the right to live a peaceful life.

Every black person born in America was born on Beale Street, born in the black neighborhood of some American city, whether in Jackson, Mississippi, or in Harlem, New York. Beale Street is our legacy.

Barry Jenkins could film himself taking a shit and it’d probably be one of the most beautiful things I’ll ever see.

Very formal - precise and controlled in almost every aspect of Barry's direction. Quite refreshing being that the docu-style is so overused these days.

Very much like Moonlight, I am drawn towards the very strong supporting actors, all bringing complexity and levity to characters that have very limited screen time - Colman Domingo as Tish’s father, Teyonah Parris as Tish’s sister and a powerful "cameo" from Brian Tyree Henry.

Screened at the Ray Kurtzman Theater at CAA.

i love James Baldwin's book, but it's a testament to Barry Jenkins' talent that many of the most beautiful parts of this adaptation are of his own invention (Dave Franco's scene being a clear and particularly moving example). what an extraordinary, generous, perseverant film this is.

as with ROMA and BURNING i feel the need to see it again before i say anything more, but yeah… Barry Jenkins: not bad at making movies.

this movie made me feel helpless, hopeful, sad, happy, broken, fixed, enraged, calm, and at peace all at the same time.

“you ready for this?”

so immaculate that it’s almost untouchable in a way, like looking at artwork through glass. it’s still a sight to behold, but feels slightly inaccessible somehow. the story and how it’s presented and mixed up is my biggest issue here, but it’s overall packaged so carefully and beautifully that i find i didn’t mind much at all in the end

and nicholas britell really did it again: this is easily the best score of the year. my goosebumps were continuous

gonna trick my racist grandma into watching this saying its an eastenders spin-off about ian beale

I look forward to many years of hearing this movie’s magnificent score and then stopping whatever I’m doing to listen to it while taking several long, deep sighs.

this is a perfect film, the world just isn’t ready for it

almost unfair how beautiful it is. and brian tyree henry always makes me very happy. i think we can all take comfort knowing the hfpa and the academy are made up of different voters

"Unbow your head." 

the waltz of life and love and hope. there is no greater force of good on this earth than barry jenkins' camera.

if beale street could talk it would ask me to stop crying during its entire run time

The ending is one of the most heartbreaking things that I've ever seen, and yet, powerful, moving and grounded as the hole movie. A genuine portrait of how love is a force that always will be ahead of hate.

The scene where the boy stops his father from eating and proceeds to say the grace just brought tears to my eyes. I'll keep thinking about the son and several other children like him who will have to grow up seeing their parents, many of them wrongly incarcerated, only during the visiting hours alloted by the prison authorities and how difficult it must be for them to hold on to their beliefs that their parents are good people while they try to fit into a society that refuses to see them as anything but criminals.

Movie is really sub-par, but whoever composed the music needs a Nobel Prize. It is transcendant

Despite being about something so traumatic and upsetting all around, every time I think about this movie the feeling I carry with it is the warmth its images radiates. Some moments here feel like an encapsulation of those film photography portraits that seem to have so much history within them and capture such a comforting feeling of nostalgia. Obviously this isn't a warm and comforting movie in terms of plot events, but that residual feeling is a testament to how intimate and loving the relationship depicted feels. I don't think the plot itself is the strongest aspect of the movie by any means, as it seems to ignore pretty important or at least interesting aspects of the characters and story. I still really really like this movie and I get so pulled in every time, also largely due to the score I mean WOW.

Great movie and even better music. Such a good

Every actors performance in this is incredible, and I wish Diego Luna was my friend. I’m foolish for sleeping on this one, Barry Jenkins continues to assure you that you’ll feel every damn feeling watching one of his films.

best best film i’ve seen in such a long time literal chills

¿Que sentido tiene enamorarse si no te van a ver como Tish mira a Fonny? Y lo digo enserio🤧💞

made me cry obvi. just beautiful.

sensível, melancólico e cheio de afeto!! mt bom

I know you guys have missed how prolific I used to be on here (jk nobody interacts with me on here anymore lmao) but the NBA playoffs has killed my productivity. Anyway I pray that Barry Jenkins' Lion King film falls through.