{"id":53643,"date":"2017-04-23T18:14:21","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T18:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53643"},"modified":"2017-04-23T18:14:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-23T18:14:21","slug":"review-in-little-boxes-a-biracial-family-meets-a-white-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53643","title":{"rendered":"Review: In \u2018Little Boxes,\u2019 a Biracial Family Meets a White Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/13\/movies\/little-boxes-review.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Review: In \u2018Little Boxes,\u2019 a Biracial Family Meets a White Town<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2017-04-13<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/genznyt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Neil Genzlinger<\/strong><\/a>, Television Critic<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"552\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/13\/movies\/little-boxes-review.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2017\/04\/14\/arts\/14littlebox\/14littlebox-master768.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>From left, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nelsan_Ellis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nelsan Ellis<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4110566\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Armani Jackson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Melanie_Lynskey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Melanie Lynskey<\/a> in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Little_Boxes_(film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Little Boxes<\/a>,\u201d about a biracial family\u2019s move from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brooklyn<\/a> to small-town America.<br \/>\n<em>Credit Mark Doyle\/Gunpowder &amp; Sky Distribution<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Lfd0toqnXJs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Little Boxes<\/a>,\u201d a mildly comic story about a biracial family that relocates to an exceedingly white town, feels a bit out of phase, but it\u2019s delicately observed and does a nice job of staying within itself. It avoids the big confrontation or grand statement; doing so allows it to be an effective, if somewhat uneventful, study of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brooklyn<\/a> bubble effect.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"nyt_video_player\" title=\"New York Times Video - Embed Player\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/video\/players\/offsite\/index.html?videoId=100000005035354\" width=\"480\" height=\"321\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Gina (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Melanie_Lynskey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Melanie Lynskey<\/a>), who is white, and Mack (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nelsan_Ellis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nelsan Ellis<\/a>), who is black, move from trendy and comfortably diverse Brooklyn so that she can take a new job in a small town in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Washington_(state)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington State<\/a>. Their son, Clark (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4110566\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Armani Jackson<\/a>), is getting ready to start sixth grade&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/13\/movies\/little-boxes-review.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLittle Boxes,\u201d a mildly comic story about a biracial family that relocates to an exceedingly white town, feels a bit out of phase, but it\u2019s delicately observed and does a nice job of staying within itself. It avoids the big confrontation or grand statement; doing so allows it to be an effective, if somewhat uneventful, study of the Brooklyn bubble effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,414,8,20],"tags":[23413,23414,11292,23412,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-53643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-family","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-armani-jackson","tag-melanie-lynskey","tag-neil-genzlinger","tag-nelsan-ellis","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53644,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53643\/revisions\/53644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}