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Carla Renata

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Biography:

Carla Renata, aka "The Curvy Film Critic," is a graduate of Howard University and has served as a moderator/host for Film Independent, SAG-AFTRA Foundation, American Cinemathque, The Bentonville Film Festival and more. As an entertainment host, she hosted The Black Experience on Film for Turner Classic Movies sponsored by AAFCA and various segments as a contributor for ITV, BBC, The LISTTV, The Stream Team, Fox-11 LA, Fox Soul and Good Day LA. Her reviews can be seen LIVE every week via YouTube and Facebook Live as part of her award-winning podcast The Curvy Critic with Carla Renata

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Enough Said (2013) 95% EDIT “This film has a message for single ladies. If a man treats you with kindness, respect and is mature enough to communicate his feelings -- PAY ATTENTION and reciprocate the behavior. ” – The Curvy Film Critic Mar 24, 2026 Full Review Muscle Shoals (2013) 97% EDIT “MUSCLE SHOALS is a documentary that lefts the veil off of a part of American music history only privy to those  musicians and artists lucky enough to record there” – The Curvy Film Critic Mar 24, 2026 Full Review Kill Your Darlings (2013) 78% EDIT “Peaked my interest about the beat generation and its subjects, while shedding light on how being gay has always been and continues to be a judgemental, stigmatic label placed into a negative light by insisting being gay is a lifestyle choice.” – The Curvy Film Critic Mar 24, 2026 Full Review 12 Years a Slave (2013) 95% EDIT “How is it possible that we have been taught in America everything there is to know about Anne Frank and Harriet Tubman, but NO MENTION of a man who endured such an injustice within our own history? N'yongo and Ejiofor will break your heart” – The Curvy Film Critic Mar 24, 2026 Full Review The Grandmaster (2013) 79% EDIT “The colorful fight scenes and cinematography illustrating Wing Chun were like watching a perfected cinematic ballet. ” – The Curvy Film Critic Mar 24, 2026 Full Review Captain Phillips (2013) 93% EDIT “Tom Hanks gives a performance so riveting you felt like a fly on the wall watching this whole scenario play out. Barkhad Abdi and Barkhad Abdiraman break our hearts while leaving your veins as cold as ice-water simultaneously.” – The Curvy Film Critic Mar 24, 2026 Full Review Gravity (2013) 96% EDIT “Gravity shows us the beauty of space, how the silence can be an escape from all the noise experienced on earth, as well as, gravity being associated with space, water or the events that don't allow us to be free in life, from ourselves and others.” – The Curvy Film Critic Mar 24, 2026 Full Review Prisoners (2013) 81% EDIT “PRISONERS, however, is the most jaw-dropping thriller I have seen in years!  It was absolutely thrilling, spellbinding and kept my attention from beginning to end.” – The Curvy Film Critic Mar 24, 2026 Full Review The World According to Dick Cheney (2013) 82% EDIT “This docs lets the American people in on the role Vice-President plays in an election, administration, as well as, the stress that comes with power and being the bad guy to save the face and reputation of POTUS.” – The Curvy Film Critic Mar 24, 2026 Full Review Baggage Claim (2013) 17% EDIT “Have to give David E. Talbert kudos for making us look like "real" people and not a cartoon of what someone "thinks" black and "gay" people look and act like.” – The Curvy Film Critic Mar 24, 2026 Full Review A Single Shot (2013) 45% EDIT “This was a rough one.  Despite the snail pace torture of the plot, performances are definitely worth acknowledging from Sam Rockwell and Jeffrey Wright” – The Curvy Film Critic Mar 24, 2026 Full Review Free Angela and All Political Prisoners (2012) 94% EDIT “Free Angela is an enlightening, inspiring and heart wrenching account of how one person can make a difference and how one person can change the course of history and life as we and THEY know it.” – The Curvy Film Critic Mar 24, 2026 Full Review In a World ... (2013) 92% EDIT “Lake Bell's directorial feature film directorial debut is setting the tone and giving more women permission to enter the world of directing and creating their own vehicles to procure employment” – The Curvy Film Critic Mar 24, 2026 Full Review Lovelace (2013) 54% EDIT “Lovelace, directed by Rob Epstein, shows us the consequences of a good girl gone wrong and what this type of life can lead to.” – The Curvy Film Critic Mar 24, 2026 Full Review Jobs (2013) 27% EDIT “As much enthusiasm and fascination I have with the origin of Apple and Steve Jobs, I couldn't get past the mediocrity of this film.” – The Curvy Film Critic Mar 24, 2026 Full Review Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) 72% EDIT “The performances of Forest Whittaker and Oprah Winfrey should and deserve to recognized as exemplary work for each.” – The Curvy Film Critic Mar 24, 2026 Full Review Casting By (2012) 94% EDIT “Any actor who has ever complained about his/her feelings concerning a casting director should make watching this documentary a requirement!!!!” – The Curvy Film Critic Mar 24, 2026 Full Review 2 Guns (2013) 64% EDIT “Unfortunately, 2 Guns left me wanting to blow my brains out from boredom” – The Curvy Film Critic Mar 24, 2026 Full Review Blue Jasmine (2013) 90% EDIT “Blue Jasmine is Allen's best film yet, with a haunting and emotionally provocative performance by Oscar winner Cate Blanchett” – The Curvy Film Critic Mar 24, 2026 Full Review The Girls in the Band (2011) 100% EDIT “Beautifully executed history ride of women who endured not only the insulting behavior of the male contemporaries, but racism on the road when traveling through the Jim Crow south.” – The Curvy Film Critic Mar 24, 2026 Full Review The Way, Way Back (2013) 83% EDIT “The Way Way Back screenplay is very witty with biting humor delivered by the raucous antics of Allison Janney” – The Curvy Film Critic Mar 24, 2026 Full Review Monsters University (2013) 80% EDIT “ If you are a child at heart, MONSTERS UNIVERSITY will totally bring you right back to a time that was golden.” – The Curvy Film Critic Mar 24, 2026 Full Review The Lone Ranger (2013) 31% EDIT “This film often felt like it was about 45 minutes too long and there were numerous scenes where I found myself asking why they were there and what did they have to do with furthering the plot” – The Curvy Film Critic Mar 24, 2026 Full Review Brave (2012) 78% EDIT “So, the moral of the story is as they say in Brave..."change your fate by mending the bonds you break". A lesson and wise words for us all.” – The Curvy Film Critic Mar 24, 2026 Full Review To Rome With Love (2012) 47% EDIT “Woody Allen's unique and genius way of telling the "human" story of how we are all just ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances always simultaneously provides some laughter, self-loathing and self-examination.” – The Curvy Film Critic Mar 24, 2026 Full Review
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