Synopsis
Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her truth.
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Cast
- Amandla StenbergStarr Carter
- Regina HallLisa Carter
- Russell HornsbyMaverick Carter
- K.J. ApaChris Bryant
- CommonUncle Carlos
- Anthony MackieKing
- Algee SmithKhalil Harris
- Lamar JohnsonSeven Carter
- Issa RaeApril Ofrah
- Sabrina CarpenterHailey Grant
Recommendations
- 91
Entertainment Weekly
If Tillman ties it all together a little neatly, he’s already served up a message that feels too fresh and important to dismiss — not of hate but of hope, and faith that even if sharing these stories can’t magically fix what’s broken, telling them still matters. - 90
Variety
Without compromising the complexity of the issues raised, or condescending to the youth of its protagonists, The Hate U Give strides with absorbing, intelligent certainty through the desperately dangerous, uneven terrain of racially divided America. - 83
IndieWire
It’s a film that contains multitudes, and only asks for a world willing to do the same. - 83
The A.V. Club
This is a film that’s tense from its earliest moments and tragic shortly thereafter, but never does it feel gratuitously punishing. - 80
The Guardian
This is mass-market entertainment with a radical bent, a loudspeaker blast of a teen movie. - 80
Vox
It strikes a perfect balance between being a coming-of-age story nestled in a family narrative on the one hand, and a social drama on the other. And in never sacrificing either of those two interests, it becomes a strong example of both. - 75
The Playlist
Despite the melodramatic ending, you leave the theater wanting to root for the film and its characters. - 75
Vanity Fair
It doesn’t take a dystopian future or a sci-fi bent to present a teenage girl who faces enormous stakes and near-constant potential for violence, and The Hate U Give represents Hollywood’s first real ability to recognize that.
