Candice Frederick

Candice Frederick HuffPost Feb 13, 2025 While the various artists help assemble a humanistic picture of the great yet tragically flawed musician, they also bring to mind their own struggles to fit inside that impossible space: entertaining but socially conscious, Black but not too Black. Go to Full Review SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) (2025) 93% - -

Candice Frederick HuffPost Dec 24, 2024 I also just find it… interesting that a movie that is supposed to center the Black and brown women of this battalion was usurped by the love story of a dead white guy. Go to Full Review The Six Triple Eight (2024) 56% - -

Candice Frederick HuffPost Dec 24, 2024 “A Complete Unknown” never feels like much of a movie and certainly not a biopic. Rather, it comes across as subpar, reality-adjacent fan fiction. Go to Full Review A Complete Unknown (2025) 81% - -

Candice Frederick HuffPost Dec 2, 2024 But so much of the film is like inside baseball for people who already have seen this story in its many other forms. Neither the performances nor August Wilson are done justice here. Go to Full Review The Piano Lesson (2024) 88% - -

Candice Frederick HuffPost Dec 2, 2024 There’s an interesting throughline between the two films that, while they both have different identities that favor a progression in time, make sense together in a franchise. Go to Full Review Gladiator II (2024) 70% - -

Candice Frederick HuffPost Nov 22, 2024 While the film does a thoughtful job examining Barrow’s journey in Belizean politics... and how honored both his family and peers he’s managed to maintain in the hip-hop game are, it creates an intriguingly dichotomous portrait. Go to Full Review The Honorable Shyne (2024) - - - -

Candice Frederick HuffPost Oct 11, 2024 [Piece by Piece] presents a hagiographical portrait of a largely beloved figure and doesn’t question any of it, letting the subject run with his own story to the film’s detriment — regardless of how much of it is actually true. Go to Full Review Piece By Piece (2024) 83% - -

Candice Frederick HuffPost Oct 11, 2024 “The Apprentice” is a fascinating portrait of the kind of deeply entitled white man born into a powerful and rich family... whose encounter with a similarly powerful figure (Cohn) at a seedy bar one night shapes him into an even more volatile person. Go to Full Review The Apprentice (2024) 83% - -

Candice Frederick HuffPost Jul 5, 2024 West grounds the film with the still relevant, precarious nature of (albeit mostly white) female mortality — particularly sexualized female mortality — in a landscape that idolizes and destroys it in equal measure. Go to Full Review MaXXXine (2024) 73% - -

Candice Frederick HuffPost Jun 20, 2024 Thankfully, it doesn’t drift away from actual conversations in the classroom and the real world, making the last half hour of “Black Barbie” the most fulfilling part. Go to Full Review Black Barbie (2023) 96% - -

Candice Frederick HuffPost Jun 13, 2024 ... It would have behooved the director, amid his own seemingly self-obsessed rant about a nearly 40-year-old moniker, to also think about the advantages he was also granted with it that eluded many others. Go to Full Review Brats (2024) 85% - -

Candice Frederick HuffPost May 10, 2024 “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” is thoughtful and horrifyingly accurate about how many young, independent white women move through a world they think has done them wrong somehow. Go to Full Review Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024) 80% - -

Candice Frederick HuffPost Apr 26, 2024 I think Zendaya does the best she can with all of this, but I think the movie ultimately fails her — and is just not interested in what she can do. Go to Full Review Challengers (2024) 88% - -

Candice Frederick HuffPost Apr 12, 2024 All it actually does is kick up a lot of dust around controversial topics without actually examining or even adequately portraying any of them. Go to Full Review Civil War (2024) 81% - -

Candice Frederick HuffPost Apr 12, 2024 There’s just not enough about this new “Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead” to justify its existence. Go to Full Review Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (2024) 54% - -

Candice Frederick HuffPost Apr 5, 2024 Even with its flaws, “Monkey Man” stands alone as a testament to what an actor can do once he takes his career into his own hands. Go to Full Review Monkey Man (2024) 89% - -

Candice Frederick HuffPost Mar 22, 2024 “Shirley” had all the potential to be something better. But it isn’t. Go to Full Review Shirley (2024) 75% - -

Candice Frederick HuffPost Dec 12, 2023 The contents of the book themselves deserve a much closer, more complicated study. Perhaps a documentary where these ideas could really breathe would have been more effective. Go to Full Review Origin (2023) 82% - -

Candice Frederick HuffPost Dec 8, 2023 Lanthimos delivers a gorgeously cinematic excursion of womanhood — albeit a white woman of substantial means and ability — propelled by a hunger for new life experiences, personal failures, tragedies and triumphs. Go to Full Review Poor Things (2023) 92% - -

Candice Frederick HuffPost Nov 20, 2023 Fennell gives us such great dialogue in “Saltburn,” but not an inspired story. Though that’s certainly fun to watch, particularly among a large theatrical audience that’s game for it, it leaves a lot to be desired. Go to Full Review Saltburn (2023) 72% 79%