John Douglas Thompson’s Typical Vibe
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John Douglas Thompson has 5 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2010s through the 2020s.
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The true story of Mamie Till Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi.
Dir. Chinonye Chukwu · With Danielle Deadwyler, Jalyn Hall, Frankie Faison

A group of top female agents from American, British, Chinese, Colombian, and German government agencies are drawn together to try and stop an organization from acquiring a deadly weapon to send the world into chaos.
Dir. Simon Kinberg · With Jessica Chastain, Lupita Nyong'o, Penélope Cruz

An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.
Dir. George C. Wolfe · With Oprah Winfrey, Rose Byrne, Renée Elise Goldsberry

A celebrated author takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds himself involved with a young literary agent.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With Meryl Streep, Lucas Hedges, Gemma Chan

When a titan music mogul, widely known as having the "best ears in the business", is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma.
Dir. Spike Lee · With Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera