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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Movie Reviews: ‘Miss Juneteenth’ film is ‘bathed in authenticity’

    Critics Jacqueline Coley and Shawn Edwards review “Miss Juneteenth,” about a former pageant winner whose life doesn’t go as planned after winning the crown; “7500,” starring Joseph Gordon Levitt as a pilot whose plane gets infiltrated by…

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    By Madeleine Brand • Jun 19, 2020 • 1 min read

    Critics Jacqueline Coley and Shawn Edwards review “Miss Juneteenth,” about a former pageant winner whose life doesn’t go as planned after winning the crown; “7500,” starring Joseph Gordon Levitt as a pilot whose plane gets infiltrated by terrorists; “The Short History of the Long Road,” a road trip story about a young girl and her father.

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      Madeleine Brand

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      Jacqueline Coley

      editor at Rotten Tomatoes

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      Shawn Edwards

      film critic at Fox 4 News and co-founder of the African American Film Critics Association

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