Articles by Kam Williams

About Kam Williams

Kam Williams is a syndicated film and book critic who writes for 100+ publications around the world. He is a member of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle, the African-American Film Critics Association, New York Film Critics Online, the NAACP Image Awards Nominating Committee and Rotten Tomatoes. In addition to a BA in Black Studies from Cornell, he has an MA in English from Brown, an MBA from The Wharton School, and a JD from Boston University.

The Mustang

April 18, 2019 Kam Williams 0

Film Review by Kam Williams Hardened Con Offered Shot at Redemption by Rough-Edged Horse Whisperer Roman Coleman (Matthias Schoenaerts) has too quick a fuse to think before he acts. That’s why he’s done a dozen […]

Yardie

March 27, 2019 Kam Williams 0

Film Review by Kam Williams Elba Makes Directorial Debut with Jamaican Coming-of-Age Drama Dennis “D” Campbell (Aml Ameen) had the misfortune of growing up in the slums of Kingston, Jamaica in the Seventies […]

Unplanned

March 27, 2019 Kam Williams 0

Film Review by Kam Williams Adaptation of Memoir Recounts Abortion Counselor’s Spiritual Transformation Abby Johnson (Ashley Bratcher) was recruited by Planned Parenthood to do volunteer work when she was still an undergrad at Texas […]

Hotel Mumbai

March 27, 2019 Kam Williams 0

Film Review by Kam Williams Harrowing Docudrama Recounts 2008 Mumbai Massacre On November 26, 2008, radical Islamists from Pakistan launched a series of coordinated attacks around the city of Mumbai which would claim 174 […]

Five Feet Apart

March 14, 2019 Kam Williams 0

Film Review by Kam Williams Romance Drama Revolves around Forbidden Love between Hospitalized Teens Stella Grant (Haley Lu Richardson) is a typical 17 year-old in most regards. However, she is also suffering from […]

The Favourite

March 5, 2019 Kam Williams 0

Film Review by Kam Williams Olivia Colman Delivers Oscar-Winning Performance in Revisionist Costume Drama Queen Anne (1665-1714) was a sickly monarch whose dozen-year reign ran from 1702 to 1714. She was also married […]

Roma

February 24, 2019 Kam Williams 0

Film Review by Kam Williams Devoted Nanny Dotes on Kids in Dysfunctional Family Drama Cleo Gutierrez (Yalitza Aparicio) is one of two live-in maids maintaining the home of Antonio (Fernando Grediaga) and Sofia (Marina […]

Cold War

February 18, 2019 Kam Williams 0

Film Review by Kam Williams Star-Crossed Lovers Repeatedly Rendezvous in Polish Postwar Drama Dateline: Poland, 1949. The countryside is still devastated by the blight left behind in the wake of the Second World War. […]