Yara (2021): An Unfocused True Crime Narrative
The trouble with Yara (2021) is that in its attempt to tell the whole story, it struggles to tell a consistently engaging story.

Nearly a decade after appearing on Broadway, Isaiah visits his family in upstate New York for the holidays and is unexpectedly put back on stage — this time to save his niece’s Christmas show. To make things more complicated, he learns that “an influential Broadway producer’s daughter is in the school production.”
The trouble with Yara (2021) is that in its attempt to tell the whole story, it struggles to tell a consistently engaging story.
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