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Black Magic for White Boys

2017

Franck Raharinosy, Ronald Guttman, Onur Tukel, Annie McCain Engman ...

Comedy An aging magician is about to lose his small New York theater, but has a devilish plan to save it. A middle-aged man finds his sovereignty in jeopardy when he impregnates a woman he barely knows. A real estate mogul is frustrated that he can't raise the rent on this tenants. These characters converge in this tale about testing boundaries, gentrification, and how old New York is fading away.

	Media	Author	Review
		Dennis Harvey Variety	"'Black Magic' isn’t much to look at — it was clearly originally intended for home screens — but it’s full of amusingly conceived and played characters in unpredictable situations."
		Richard Whittaker Austin Chronicle	"No one makes genre films like Onur Tukel. His genius is in taking a mundane situation, inserting a genre trope (...) and making the scenario even more mundane and prosaic."
		Jared Mobarak The Film Stage	"Tukel trades in provocation and it works because our laughter stops targeting the oppressors to eventually target the oppressed"
		John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] sprawls out in pleasant if not exactly compelling fashion (...) Occasionally funny, the film might've benefitted from developing some of its characters more at the expense of others"

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