A friend of mine recently issued a critic’s notebook challenge to me: Write about the most Blackfamous movie you know. I had an idea, but I thought of it so quickly that I questioned if I were right.
The Five Heartbeats, the 1991 movie written and directed by—and also starring—Robert Townsend (Keenan Ivory Wayans was a co-writer) is easily one of my favorite movies of all time. For my money, The ...