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This One's for the Ladies

2018

Documentary

Documentary This documentary explores the sexual and social identity of contemporary black America through intimate, eye opening and often hilarious accounts from women and men who find love and community in the underground world of exotic dancing.

	Media	Author	Review
		Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"The interviews (...) rarely prove particularly deep or illuminating (...) And the personal stories of the fans, although sometimes touching, feel familiar (...) Most problematically, the film is simply atrocious on a technical level"
		Tomris Laffly Variety	"The magic of Graham’s film lies in its ability to steer the audience’s amusement in an empathetic direction (...) Every larger-than-life character holds your attention with confidence."
		Ben Kenigsberg The New York Times	"The insights are not groundbreaking (...) Even the dancing sequences, often shot in poor lighting as if on a smartphone camera, look perfunctory."
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Raw, empathetic, and so insistently humane that it plays like a fun 82-minute 'fuck you' to the power structures of a country that wants to squeeze the life out of its poorest black environments"
		Nick Allen rogerebert.com	"[It] is just too much of a clumsy mess to be a good time (...) Graham ends up under-developing both halves of the movie’s brain, the horny half and the more thoughtful half (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Beatrice Loayza AV Club	"'This One’s For The Ladies' is as authentically joyous and messy as one of the nights on the town so eagerly awaited by its characters."

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