What a cute movie, despite our common age, in vodas they differ in terms of protagonism and accomplishment, I am realized, but not always the protagonist, Radha is always the protagonist, but does not feel fulfilled, and we both get a brand new 20-something little , kkkk, I love it ... I loved the approach, that almost informal thing, camera in hand, dialogues full of messages, reflections and comic strips, interrupted by photographs and memories, (would they be real?!?!),but it is to be proud of, woman , black, non-standard, directing, scripting and acting, all masterfully, a real pride...

Radha Blank has created one of the best movies of the year.

She plays a version of herself, a forty-year-old struggling playwright who tires of being treated as a black commodity by the world of white theater and decides to reinvent herself as a rap artist, where she can truly give voice to her roiling emotions. Along the way she fights and makes up hilariously with her longtime friend and agent and strikes up a tentative romance with a much younger man.

How many movies do we get about the experiences of black forty-something women made by black forty-something women? Not enough, so thank you Ms. Blank for giving us this one. And one of the things I appreciated most about this movie is that it's not about the black experience in context of white people. It's about a world of black culture where white people are maybe necessary but tangential. I want to understand what the world is like for people who aren't like me, and this movie gives me that.

If I have any complaints, it's that it does overstay its welcome a bit. It's long, and I was ready for the movie to be over before the movie was ready to be over. But despite that I would highly recommend this to anybody.

Grade: A

Forty year old version was somewhat dissapointment to me,i just coudnt find any character that was actually likeable or symphatic and because of that i wasnt invested in a story as i wanted when i started to watch this film.Story wasnt nothing great or brilliant but in a first and second act it still had captivating touch around it,but as we were going towards third one everything was starting to become stale and tiresome.I mean who wants to hear a middle aged woman complaining all the time that she is 40 and that she didnt become what she wanted,also im not a good rap expert but honestly she wasnt even that good in such staff,this film was in end a let down in a way