Sultry music swells as the camera swoons over a young couple in a tender nighttime embrace. The 1950s residential New York City street is carefully rain-slicked and lined with shiny classic cars: an ...

It’s no secret that most romances made during Hollywood's Golden Age centered around white people, with Black actors mostly relegated to films about race. Today, movies about Black people set during ...

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Amazon Prime original movie Sylvie’s Love is a high-style, big-heart throwback romance starring Tessa Thompson and NFL star-turned-actor Nnamdi Asomugha that — REVIEW SPOILER ALERT — is a delightful ...

Eugene Ashe resurrects the old-fashioned Hollywood melodrama for the kind of Black love story that it was never allowed to tell. They don’t make ’em like this anymore, but then again, they never ...

Sylvie’s Love follows the gentle love story between Sylvie (Tessa Thompson) and Robert (Nnamdi Asomugha), a mismatched pair who find themselves entangled in a complicated romance during a hot Harlem ...

Sylvie is absolutely miserable when trying to be the woman she thinks her husband Lacey wants, Lacey is miserable trying to be Robert for Sylvie, and Robert is miserable after breaking things off with ...

The love story at the heart of Sylvie’s Love may be a summertime fling, but this romance starring Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha is perfect for a cozy winter evening this holiday break. Luckily, ...

Too often audiences are so conditioned to watching Black characters grapple with racial trauma that we brace ourselves for it every time we sit down with a film — from "Time" and "Da 5 Bloods" to "On ...

The Amazon Prime release hopes to be the romantic hit of the Christmas streaming season. Amazon’s “Sylvie’s Love” synopsis reads: “Robert (Asomugha), a saxophonist, spends late nights playing behind a ...

Sylvie's Love costume designer Phoenix Mellow has what she calls a "bible of resources" when it comes to sourcing vintage — and that's a very good thing, because the period film is set in the 1950s ...