Sniper 

A trio of girls form a band and enter a singing competition together after learning they work best as a team.

Amanda Riley gets the opportunity to travel to Vietnam for the experience of a lifetime.

A Black woman centered in a box office rom-com with a happy ending and no struggle love.

In a film where a Black couple is framed to be the lead characters, they still managed to get shuffled off to the sidelines. The enthusiastic cast delivers well on goofy bits- but can only go so far before they begin to fall flat.

Shadow & Bone excels in natural story representation with powerful centering of culture. Jessie Mei Li stars as Alina Starkov, the feisty cartographer with kindness, innocence, and integrity, who comes to be revealed as the legendary summoner of light.