![]() ![]() At her white high school, which is supposedly striving for greater diversity, a security guard mistakes her for a drug dealer and body slams her to the ground. Seuss book.ĭespite her immense talent, Bri’s ascent toward stardom isn’t assured. The voiceover adds little grounding to the character-apart from vocalizing her craft-and her internal lines are so basic, they might as well have been lifted from a Dr. Lathan also opts to use Bri’s internal monologue, whereby she rhymes and counts out syllables, as the film’s narration for reasons that aren’t wholly clear. ![]() Instead, scenes begin with cars or buses driving into a static shot, leaving us confined within the boundaries of the lens rather than exploring what makes this neighborhood alive. ![]() The neighborhood of Garden Heights, though often given shoutouts, is rarely experienced and seen Lathan and her cinematographer Eric Branco (“ The Forty-Year-Old Version,” “ Clemency”) rarely opt for an establishing shot. Everything in Lathan’s aesthetic vision looks and sounds artificial. ![]() Adapted from The Hate U Give author Angie Thomas’ same-titled novel, “On the Come Up” unoriginally hits the beats of other rap battle movies like “ 8 Mile” and “Hustle & Flow,” but without either of those films’ lived-in feel. ![]()
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