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Monday, July 6, 2026

You People (2023)

I hesitate to admit that I watched this moive because it was so atrociously bad, but watch it I did. There are a lot of good quality actors in this, which is why I kept trying it--on three seperate occasions before I could get all the way through it. I just kept thinking it might get better, but it didn't. The set up is kind of a modern Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, with Jonas Hill as the love interest and Eddie Murphy the Black Muslim dad. The twist is that his wife had a white grandfather, who Murphy thinks poisoned the well--so race and religion are a bit more nuanced in portrayal but that is where it stops. Full stop. This has nearly every stereotype about black people and Jewish people that you can imagine, and maybe it is supposed to be funny or make you think, but all it did was make me cringe, and I hope I save you from having to watch it.

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