BLACK SNAKE MOAN (2006) - Mar. 15, 2009
Craig Brewer's follow-up to Hustle and Flow, this was a well directed film about a man who finds a beaten-up girl near his house, and decides to take her in in an atempt to reform her. The film is actually far better than you'd suspect from the premise, and does a really good job showing the friendship that slowly forms between these two characters. It helps that the characters are really well developed, and that the performances are so good -- it's quite refreshing to see Samuel L. Jackson give an actual performance, and not just fall back on his established persona as he does in pretty much every film he's in these days. It reminds you that he actually is a very good actor. ***1/2
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