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‘Ride or Die’ Review: Queer Thriller Starts as ‘Thelma & Louise’ Homage Before Driving to Its Own Messy Destination
Josalynn Smith's 'Ride or Die,' debuting at Tribeca Festival, has its flaws in plausibility, but also two performances worth slowing down for.
A recent descendent was Kitty Green’s “The Royal Hotel,” which sent two backpacking friends — a practical one and an impulsive one — into the Australian outback to work at a pub where sexual menace infuses the arid air. Produced by Jamie Foxx’s production company, Foxxhole, the drama — or as it’s been described the “anti-romantic/thriller” or the queer “Thelma & Louise” — has flaws, but also suggests a young director intrigued by ideas, comfortable with understatement and at ease with actors. That a scene soon after finds the two canoodling at an arthouse showing the perfect double bill of “Daughters of the Dust” and “Killer of Sheep,” is quietly funny — Sloane had just been riffing about what a blast “Jennifer’s Body” was — and maybe a bit sad too.
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