‘Miss Juneteenth’ is the Perfect Summer Film for Summer 2020
6 min readJun 22, 2020
‘They just don’t make them like that anymore’ seems an odd moviegoing cliché to apply to the newly released “Miss Juneteenth.” When did ‘they’ in the world of movies ever truly apply to black filmmakers in any kind of sustained way, and when did we ever see character-driven films that detailed modern-day black life in immersive style with black females at the center?
