‘Fast Color’ Review: Another Empowering Black Superhero Movie, But Don’t Expect ‘Black Panther’ — SXSW 2018

The catchy spin on “Fast Color” is that it’s another black superhero movie, and a woman is the hero.

Entering circulation just days after “Black Panther” crossed $1 billion at the box office.

However, “Fast Color” is something far stranger and subtler than the McU, providing an allegorical story about generations of black women who are forced to suppress their strengths, and the mounting courage they find in finally taking charge.The second feature from director Julia Hart (“Miss Stevens”) has a solemn, hypnotic quality, hovering between the profound ramifications of its intimate story and the hints of an otherworldly drama.

Co-written with her husband and producer Jordan Horowitz, the movie presents a fresh variation on the superhero story, a near-future setting that may as well take place in the same dystopian landscape where “Logan” found its own wayward mutant hiding from the world.

However, while the Wolverine gave up on his responsibilities long ago,

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