Queen & Slim

While on a forgettable first date together in Ohio, a black man and a black woman are pulled over for a minor traffic infraction. The situation escalates, with sudden and tragic results.

Cast

Daniel Kaluuya

as Slim

Jodie Turner-Smith

as Queen

Bokeem Woodbine

as Uncle Earl

Sturgill Simpson

as Police Officer Reed

Flea

as Mr. Shepherd

Chloë Sevigny

as Mrs. Shepherd

Indya Moore

as Goddess

Benito Martinez

as Sheriff Edgar

Jahi Di'Allo Winston

as Junior

Gralen Bryant Banks

as Older Black Man

Reviews

Stephen Campbell

_**A powerful socio-political statement disguised as a road-movie**_ >_We'd never talked about it, but I figured you knew the rules. If a cop stopped, you didn't run, you didn't talk back, you didn't ever, ever get angry. White people could do that – hell, they could shoot up a church and then as...

SWITCH.

To its credit, 'Queen & Slim' features some pretty stellar performances and great camerawork but has to work against the mammoth influence of its writing and pacing to make something memorable, and ultimately fails. It's a shame because Matsoukas shows promise as a filmmaker and clearly has importan...

Peter McGinn

Queen & Slim was entertaining overall, and its social messaging that might have turned off viewers of a certain political world view worked for me. It will not make my greatest movie list, but it held my interest. Not because of its theme or message so much, but more for the character depth and deve...

CinemaSerf

The eponymous couple - Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith have hit it off after their first date and are driving when they are pulled over by a traffic cop. Quite quickly, things spiral out of control with both her and the cop shot - the latter, fatally. Almost immediately, they become Ohio's mos...

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