Film Comment

Blindspotting

Director: Carlos López Estrada

Country/Distributor: USA, Lionsgate

Opening: July 20

WRITTEN BY AND STARRING Tony Award–winner Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal, Carlos López Estrada’s is on the surface a buddy comedy about two friends who work for a moving company in Oakland. Collin (Diggs) is on his final days of probation, living in a halfway house, and actively trying to stay out of the kind of

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