Save this article to read it later.
Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection.
This review originally ran during the Sundance Film Festival.
There is one five-minute sequence inBlindspottingwhere all its competing elements come together for a brief, shining moment.
And it happens to be the story of how Collin (Daveed Diggs) got arrested.
There are many meandering detours around the neighborhood in the films first half.
We meet Miless girlfriend Ashley (Jasmine Cephas Jones) and their son, and Collins old-school activist mom.
But like many aspects of the film, it starts off fun and ends up feeling like homework.
(Even their names feel like theyre supposed to be a subtle joke.)
Thats the film at its most subtle.
Its not thatBlindspottingdoesnt have important points to make about how individuals live in a collective history of racialized violence.
