Janelle Monáe's starring debut in "Antebellum" should not be taken lightly.

Janelle Monáe's starring debut in "Antebellum" should not be taken lightly.

Lately, I’ve been struggling with how to evaluate ambitious films and television shows that see themselves advancing radical racial politics, namely Lovecr...

Time-mangling racism allegory can’t be saved by its good intentions

Janelle Monáe stars in 'Antebellum,' the debut from Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz that shares a producer with Jordan Peele's 'Get Out' and 'Us.'

While we live in the present, we should always look to the past to understand change and development, moral contemplation, and how we can learn from mistakes...

Heavy-handed and glibly effective, this post-"Get Out" horror film uses racial issues to enhance genre filmmaking rather than the other way around.

After all the sadistic violence, the big twist is a big bust.

“Antebellum” is built around a provocative twist, and it’s a good one – as well as one that definitely shouldn’t be spoiled even a little. Once tha...

Janelle Monáe's new thriller tries to be everywhere and ends up nowhere.

Civil War horror drama has a great premise, but poor execution.

Janelle Monáe stars in Antebellum, a horror movie best left in the past.

Janelle Monáe is trapped a slavery nightmare and Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz's horror movie. Read the Empire review.

'Antebellum' is an intriguing exercise in speculative horror undone in the end by its own tangled messaging.

Characters become caricatures in this lurid horror thriller starring Janelle Monáe

Janelle Monáe plays a dual role as a sexually abused slave and a present-day writer in Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz's horror thriller.

An artful and provocative movie about the enduring horror of America's original sin, "Antebellum" can't follow through on its own concept.

Nightmarish science fiction set on a southern plantation

Antebellum is part period piece, part horror flick, part Shyamalanesque piece of chicanery.

Starring Janelle Monáe but undone by its own tepid twist, "Antebellum" is high-concept horror from the producers of "Get Out" and "Us."

“Antebellum” is a horror movie about slavery that makes few weighty comments about it.

It’s exploitative, shallow, gory horror that limits Monáe’s voice

Antebellum, a Twilight Zone-ish thriller fromthe writing/directing duo of Gerard Bush & Christopher Renz, takes its timeestablishing itself as one thing befo...

While Antebellum is dazzling to the eyes, it also leaves an icky taste in your mouth in its leering, exploitative depiction of violent, slavery movie tropes. 

“Antebellum” is a gorgeously-shot but dawdling and ditzy parable on race and “the patriarchy,” told in three acts. First-time feature writer/director...

Janelle Monáe stars in 'Antebellum,' a brash and not always successful slavery revenge fantasy. K. Austin Collins' review

This disappointing thriller hinges on an obvious mystery.

Janelle Monáe delivers a great performance in the otherwise muddled horror-thriller Antebellum, where nothing is as it seems.

The producers who gave us Get Out are responsible for the film, but its creators lack Jordan Peele’s taste for irony or his faith in the power of restraint.

To make a point about the evils of white supremacy, the film subjects its Black characters to unceasing brutality.

If you've been paying attention to what's happening these past four years, you've certainly seen your share of open racism spewed with an angry sense of enti...

This isn’t to say that these types of stories shouldn’t be made, but more so to point out that the way in which they have been made thus far is both larg...

How does the historical nightmare of slavery inhabit the present day? “Antebellum,” the feature-length debut of directing duo Gerard Bush and Christopher...

Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz's movie has a touch of "12 Years a Slave," a bit of "Django Unchained" and a central twist that's worthy of a bad M. Night S...

The movie brings the horrors of slavery into the present with a terrifying twist

The horror film will be released on-demand Sept. 18

With a blend of social horror and Shyamalan-esque mystery, 'Antebellum' stars Janelle Monae in dual roles confronting racism past and present.

Janelle Monáe plays a contemporary woman abducted and enslaved in this brilliant 'Get Out'-style social thriller.

This movie had the opportunity to show a more dynamic side of slavery narratives, but it ends up reaffirming the very horror it is trying to critique.