Test Pattern

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Test Pattern

2021,

1h 22m,

Drama/

Mystery & Thriller

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Young couple Renesha (Brittany S. Hall) and Evan (Will Brill) negotiate a variety of questions, judgments, and other comments on their interracial relationship. Yet, the most significant test for the strength of their bond arrives in the form of a brutal sexual assault Renesha suffers. A frantic Evan must then drive the distressed Renesha across the city in hopes of securing a rape kit, encountering further prejudice along the way. Written and directed by Shatara Michelle Ford. Gail Bean, Drew Fuller, and Ben Levin co-star.

Critics Consensus

Test Pattern surveys the aftermath of a woman's assault -- and uncovers the many ways in which personal trauma can be compounded by systemic injustice.

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K. Austin Collins

Rolling Stone

Feb 25, 2021

4.5/5

This is a film that takes a slim setup, all of it predicated on difference, and runs with it, renders it into something as intellectually persuasive as it is dramatically refined.

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Richard Brody

The New Yorker

Feb 22, 2021

Reveals, with fiercely focussed observation, the combined breakdown of public institutions and private life.

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Claudia Puig

FilmWeek (LAist)

Feb 20, 2021

This is an important film. It's perhaps even more than timely -- it's urgent.

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Marya E. Gates

Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack)

Feb 13, 2024

Examines not just the broken medical system in Texas, but also toxic masculinity, the murky waters of consent, and the power dynamics in interracial couples - especially between Black women and white men.

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Mitchell Beaupre

Awards Radar

Sep 22, 2022

4/4

Everything in Test Pattern comes back to that idea of authenticity, exemplified by the neorealist approach that Ford takes to putting us through the motions with these characters.

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Marlow Stern

The Daily Beast

Jan 4, 2022

Those words by late civil-rights leader Malcolm X reverberate throughout filmmaker Shatara Michelle Ford's white-knuckle debut...

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Synopsis

Young couple Renesha (Brittany S. Hall) and Evan (Will Brill) negotiate a variety of questions, judgments, and other comments on their interracial relationship. Yet, the most significant test for the strength of their bond arrives in the form of a brutal sexual assault Renesha suffers. A frantic Evan must then drive the distressed Renesha across the city in hopes of securing a rape kit, encountering further prejudice along the way. Written and directed by Shatara Michelle Ford. Gail Bean, Drew Fuller, and Ben Levin co-star.

Director: Shatara Michelle Ford
Producer: Shatara Michelle Ford, Pin-Chun Liu, Yu-Hao Su
Screenwriter: Shatara Michelle Ford
Distributor: Kino Lorber
Production Co: 120E Films
Genre: Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 12, 2021, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 29, 2021
Runtime: 1h 22m
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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