2020 · music
Black Is King
Directed by Beyoncé, Blitz Bazawule, Emmanuel Adjei, Pierre Debusschere, Ibra Ake, Jake Nava, Dikayl Rimmasch, Jenn Nkiru1h 25m2020
This visual album from Beyoncé reimagines the lessons of "The Lion King" (2019) for today's young kings and queens in search of their own crowns.
Our read: Black Is King (2020) reads as a warm, kinetic, surreal music entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, kinetic, gentle music, surreal in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- surreal
- redemptive
- tender
Watching Black Is King tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
Your lens for tonight
?
Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
More info & search links
How Black Is King feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want lush Afrofuturist pageantry and Beyoncé visuals that lift the room instantly.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if music-video looseness without a plot thread leaves you restless or lost.
Eight films that feel like this one.
Closest in the twelve-axis space, not “people also liked”. All films like Black Is King, with why →
Discussion
Make it a movie night.
Pick a mood, get a film the whole couch will enjoy, and give everyone something to watch for.
Pick tonight's film →