Still Processing: We Don’t Love Everything Made by Black People, and That’s O.K.?

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Director Ava DuVernay on the set of “A Wrinkle in Time.”

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This week, we discuss “A Wrinkle in Time,” Ava DuVernay’s attempt to take the audience on a magical adventure with Meg Murray as she searches for her father through multiple universes. Our time traveling experience … wasn’t as magical as we hoped. But this is good news. We explain why the film’s shortcomings do not affect the upward trajectory of Ava DuVernay’s career or of black filmmaking in general, but actually work to highlight the progress of black filmmakers and encourage black artists to take bigger risks. We dive deep into what it means to criticize black works of art and express what gets lost when we decide it’s beyond criticism.

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