The Hate U Give review – Amandla Sternberg shines in tough teen movie with radical bent

Amandla Sternberg lives up to her promise in a hard-hitting adapation of Angie Thomas’ bestselling Ya novel about a police shooting and racial strifeAngie Thomas’s young adult bestseller The Hate U Give won plaudits last year for its thoughtful account of the effects of police brutality on a black teenager.

Now, a year later comes a daring and deeply felt adaptation from director George Tillman Jr, anchored by a heavyweight performance by Hunger Games star Amandla Stenberg.Stenberg plays Starr Carter, a teenage girl living with her parents and two brothers in the tough (fictional) neighbourhood of Garden Heights.

Starr’s father Maverick (Russell Hornsby) is a former gang member turned community leader keen to impress on his children both the importance of black pride and the dangers that being a person of colour in an institutionally biased nation brings.

Early on in the film he delivers “the talk

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