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Native Son
Directed by
Rashid Johnson
TV-MA
2019
1h 44m
Drama
5.7
62%
48%
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A young African-American living in Chicago enters into a seductive new world of money and power after he is hired as a chauffeur for an affluent businessman.
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Cast of Native Son
Ashton Sanders
Bigger Thomas
Margaret Qualley
Mary Dalton
Nick Robinson
Jan Erlone
KiKi Layne
Bessie Mears
Bill Camp
Henry Dalton
Sanaa Lathan
Trudy Thomas
Elizabeth Marvel
Mrs. Dalton
David Alan Grier
Marty
Lamar Johnson
Jackson
Jerod Haynes
Gus
Aaron Moten
Tony
Stephen McKinley Henderson
Mr. Green
Barbara Sukowa
Peggy
Ashleigh Morghan
Jasmine
Dontez James
Bartender
Bryant Carroll
Dispatch
Joe Kurak
Usher
Judae'a Brown
Vera
Malkia Stampley
Detective Rogers
Samantha Seawolf
Hipster (uncredited)
Brian Andrus
Partier (uncredited)
Rashid Johnson
Director
Suzan-Lori Parks
Writer
Matthew Perniciaro
Producer
Michael Sherman
Producer
Native Son Ratings & Reviews
The Atlantic
Hannah Giorgis
At times quite visually stunning, but with tonal incongruities that make for a disjointed viewing experience.
Vague Visages
Greg Carlson
Johnson's striking vision is enhanced by Libatique's photography, which perfectly outlines the discomfort experienced by Big as he tries - and fails - to fit in anywhere.
Andscape
Soraya Nadia McDonald
Nearly 80 years after Native Son was first published, we're still searching for answers.
Slant Magazine
Steven Nguyen Scaife
Native Son makes a number of changes to its source material, many of which dilute the story's power.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
Thanks in great part to the staying power of the source material, and the blistering work by Ashton Sanders and KiKi Layne, Native Son leaves a lasting imprint.
AV Club
Aramide Tinubu
Native Son is heartbreaking and painfully relevant, proving that in the nearly 80 years since Wright published his novel, little has changed.
RogerEbert.com
Monica Castillo
The movie is at once struggling with what it wants to say, what it needs to say and what history has said before it, and its message becomes muddled in the process.
CNN.com
Brian Lowry
Native Son vividly revives a seminal book, and once the movie and audience get their bearings, proves as thought-provoking as it is heartbreaking.
Newsday
Verne Gay
An especially thoughtful film - that's already a given - but an unexpectedly inert one.
Refinery29
Anne Cohen
Despite that unevenness, there's no denying that Johnson's film, with a script by Pulitzer-winning playwright Suzan Lori-Parks, is an ambitious and arrestingly compelling work that packs a mighty punch.
RogerEbert.com
Brian Tallerico
There were decisions made in this production--both in how the work has been updated and how it was not--that drain Native Son of the momentum it really needs.
IndieWire
Eric Kohn
Rashid Johnson's adaptation of the seminal novel isn't perfect, but it enhances the story's themes with powerful filmmaking.
Vox
Alissa Wilkinson
Progresses in fits and starts; every time you feel like you've locked into it, it seems to slam on the brakes and veer off around the corner.
Shadow and Act
Trey Mangum
Native Son successfully updates the story to 2019, begging the question: Is 2019 America so different than 1940?
New York Magazine/Vulture
Bilge Ebiri
Sanders's... performance breathes new life into one of American literature's most heartbreaking and controversial characters.
AV Club
A.A. Dowd
It's a provocative experiment.
The Hollywood Reporter
Todd McCarthy
A problematic but keenly talented take on an imperishable text.
Entertainment Weekly
Leah Greenblatt
Sanders has an elusive kind of quicksilver presence; sometimes he's little boy, gentle and funny and kind; sometimes a grown man with nothing behind his eyes but rage or a hard blankness.
TheWrap
Carlos Aguilar
A gut-punch of a debut that examines race relations in America with unabashed force, Johnson's present-day interpretation proves, disgracefully, how pertinent Wright's text remains.
Variety
Owen Gleiberman
"Native Son" is a drama of vibrant moodiness, and Matthew Libatique's cinematography lends it a hot sensual street glow.
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