Buzzworthy 'Blindspotting' completes the great Oakland film trifecta of 2018
Something's up with Oakland, Calif., and moviewise it's working. This year three utterly different and bracingly effective films dealing with race, heroism, cowardice and ambition owe their personalities and much of their identities to the California city longtime resident Gertrude Stein once dismissed, at the legendary end of a typical run-on sentence, as the place where "there is no there there."
Opening July 20, "Blindspotting" furnishes the latest proof to the contrary. The rollicking portrait of a friendship and a frantically gentrifying city completes the 2018 trifecta begun by "Black Panther" (set, in part, in director Ryan Coogler's hometown) and continued by Boots Riley's "Sorry to Bother You," which in its way is no less fantastical than the Marvel smash.
Like "Sorry to Bother You," "Blindspotting" made a big noise at this year's Sundance Film Festival. The
