See You Yesterday review – poignant time travel caper is a Netflix win
This engaging, often ingenious, Spike Lee-produced adventure sees two teens try to stop a police shooting by going back in time
In the last couple of years, we’ve witnessed a glut of film-makers and screenwriters responding to the increase in publicised, and often iPhone-recorded, incidents of unarmed black men being shot and killed by racist police officers. In Monsters and Men, Widows, Blindspotting and The Hate U Give, an ugly real-world epidemic provided dramatic impetus for creators and audiences have been left with a necessary and damning snapshot of the time we’re in.
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