Wake Up, Dead Man (Everyone's Included Until Somebody Gets Stabbed)
When a powerful church leader is found dead, Benoit Blanc enters a tight-knit community where everyone has secrets, but not everyone is fully developed.

This film is a unique love story told through two parallel journeys, where "Hema Malini" is a symbol for forbidden desires. A homeopath treats a woman who introduces herself by that name, while an independent filmmaker struggles to complete a film with the same title. The two stories eventually converge, transforming their personal struggles into unconventional love stories of a kind.
When a powerful church leader is found dead, Benoit Blanc enters a tight-knit community where everyone has secrets, but not everyone is fully developed.
This short film was an overall creative success.
Praising Black representation and condemning the power structures that suppress it, a mother delivers an impassioned speech to her distant son.
Escape The Field is a serviceable horror thriller. The characters are easier to remember as horror character tropes. As I wrote this review, I only remembered the characters by their tropes: #FinalGirl, #Everyman, #Badass, #MeanB*/SexyGirl, #Realist/BlackLesbian, and #TheNerd.
Despite the film’s efforts to reframe its heroine with modern complexity, a certain emotional distance lingers.
As legal dramas go, we rarely see an African-American actor in the lead role. "The Burial" has several.