Is God Is Opens in US Cinemas, Sending Scarred Twins on a Revenge Quest

5 articles · Updated · The Guardian · May 14

Aleshea Harris’s R-rated thriller has opened in US cinemas, centering on twins Racine and Anaia after a letter from their presumed-dead mother pulls them into a mission to kill their father.
Ruby tells the sisters that the house fire that scarred them was an act of domestic violence by their father, framing the film’s central question of whether inherited violence can be broken without more violence.
Kara Young and Mallori Johnson lead the road-movie revenge story through Louisiana, with telepathic exchanges and moments of play offsetting the film’s blood-soaked premise.
Vivica A. Fox, Sterling K. Brown, Janelle Monáe, Erika Alexander and Mykelti Williamson round out the cast as Harris, adapting her off-Broadway work in her feature writing and directing debut, reframes Black trauma with texture and dark humor.

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