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Chapter & Verse

Lance was unable to find a job he could earn money from. He could not use the technological skills he learned in prison. Who wants to hire a man who was a gang leader and just got out of jail?. But was forced to deliver food to the food store and agreed to this food in order to live.
Duration: 97 min
Quality: SD
Release: 2017
IMDb: 6.4
Keywords:  #Chapter & Verse #Daniel Beaty #Loretta Devine #Omari Hardwick
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Hollywood Reporter
February 04, 2017
Resonating with an authenticity borne of the experiences of its director/co-screenwriter Jamal Joseph, Chapter & Verse movingly portrays the plight of a recently released ex-con striving to make a new life for himself on the mean streets of Harlem.
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Movie Nation
January 26, 2017
Earnest but over-familiar ex-con tries to go straight in Harlem tale.
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Film Inquiry
February 09, 2017
Beaty's original screenplay and performance stand out to make Chapter & Verse a remarkable chapter in African-American storytelling from the twenty-first century.
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Los Angeles Times
February 09, 2017
[A] tough/tender portrait of an ex-con attempting to find redemption in modern-day transitional Harlem.
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Shockya.com
January 30, 2017
An authentic look at street life in Harlem with the suggestion that the high incidence of crime results from the lack of male role models.
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NYC Movie Guru
February 09, 2017
Tender, heartfelt, well-acted and quietly powerful despite being slightly overstuffed with dramatic conflicts.
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Shadow and Act
February 01, 2017
Chapter &Verse is not simply a story about new beginnings. It's a film about all the ways things have changed for Black people (Black men in particular) and all of the ways that they have continued to remain the same.
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Village Voice
February 03, 2017
The story, scripted by Beaty and poet/author-turned-filmmaker Jamal Joseph (who himself did five-and-a-half years in Leavenworth) dips into sloppy, melodramatic heavy-handedness, sullying the occasional spurts of fresh perspective.
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New York Times
February 02, 2017
The movie's wide-screen framing, ruthless plot reversals and say-what-you-mean writing sometimes recall a master of socially conscious cinema from another era, Sam Fuller. But this is a picture with its own strong voice.
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Spirituality and Practice
January 12, 2017
A drama that has us cheering on an ex-con who is on a serious quest for a transformed life.
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Film Journal International
February 02, 2017
The utter realness of this story and the way it has been handled is the resonating strength of Jamal Joseph's gripping, affecting study of survival in today's Harlem.
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Variety
February 10, 2017
Despite its familiarity, "Chapter & Verse" manages to make its material both fresh and authentic.
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