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'You People' Soundtrack: Every Song in the Netflix Movie (What's on Netflix)

The cast of the movie includes David Duchovny, Deon Cole, Eddie Murphy, Elliott Gould, Jonah Hill, Jordan Firstman, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

Drake](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CxtK7-XtE0) [Moon River – Frank Ocean](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXiFHDfvn4A) [Dr. Music – Family Underground](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46E6-Rkzsmg) [Where Did The Day Go – Wet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwcRIVPWAjU) [Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe – Barry White](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0I6mhZ5wMw) [Trauma Baby – Malcolm Mays](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKd_qwISbOg) YG](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM9xgHibvzM) [Comfortable – GoGo Morrow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOhueFnoMuY) [The Payback – James Brown](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=istJXUJJP0g) [Classic – Meek Mill Feat. Pharrell](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtUVQei3nX4) [Smack a Bitch – Rico Nasty](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D4happ4TQU) [POPSTAR – DJ Khaled feat. Ludacris, Rick Ross, T-Pain & Snoop Dogg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGXzlRoNtHU) [Tonite – DJ Quik](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hykZtBaPKps) [Honest – ROCCO](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G6eiuqjghA) [Drop It Likes It’s Hot – Snoop Dogg. Netflix, via their Spotify hub, has also uploaded the “official playlist” for listeners. [Cuss Words – Too $hort](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqsOdwQgjVQ) [All I Do Is Win – DJ Khaled feat. Swizz Beatz & Jeremih](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpOSrXcPvs0) [Pomegranate – Kota the Friend](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtlS0HttGeU) [Stay High – Brittany Howard](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfizQsGWOxI) [Best Part – Daniel Caesar ft. Lil Wayne](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBmipUOg1Qw) [Last Time That I Checc’d – Nipsey Hussle feat. H.E.R.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBy7FaapGRo) [6 ‘N The Mornin’ – Ice-T](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izuMg1GGnMc) [Free Your Mind – Amnesty](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYKw1WdLsEY) Look no further if you’re looking for the full list of songs featured in Netflix’s You People. [Chitty Bang – Leikeli47](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfcajB7UL3E) [Magic – Vince Staples, Mustard](https://youtu.be/7TtV-f_m6Qg) [Fousheé – gold fronts ft.

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You People movie review & film summary (2023) | Roger Ebert (Roger Ebert)

It is one tiny rewrite away from a broad “Naked Gun”-esque parody of comedies that traffic in racial stereotypes and differences. Honestly, most of those ...

The tragic thing about “You People” is that it’s a good idea with a great cast. Late in the film, Amira claims that Shelley sees her like a new toy, and I wish the film had the guts to explore that idea more—how people like Shelley can be fascinated by Black culture but not in a way that ever seeks to understand it. Hill and Barris are constantly throwing in these interesting ideas and skipping away from them to the easy, unfunny joke. Admittedly, the angle here is interesting regarding social commentary in that Shelley plays one of those women who sees Black culture in purely superficial terms. Cut to six months later, when Ezra has decided to marry Amira and so steels himself to ask permission from her parents Akbar ( [Eddie Murphy](/cast-and-crew/eddie-murphy)) and Fatima ( [Nia Long](/cast-and-crew/nia-long)). It’s as if they never listened to any podcasts with racial themes, overwriting the scenes with awkward dialogue that sounds so scripted (when the whole idea is that these podcasts are casual, off-the-cuff conversations).

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'You People' squanders a topnotch cast in a movie caught between ... (CNN)

"You People" relies on cringe-inducing moments as the crux of its comedy, as a Jewish guy and a Black Muslim woman (neither of them particularly observant) ...

Ultimately, though, the performances feel mostly squandered as “You People” yields less than the sum of its parts, not helped by unconvincing plot conveniences down the stretch. Virginia” decision](https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/03/us/interracial-marriage-blake-cec/index.html) and the release of “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” – or settle for broad sitcom-style gags. That tension was also evident in Barris’ previous series for Netflix, [“#blackAF,”](https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/16/entertainment/blackaf-review/index.html) in which he also starred. There are also pointed observations about race relations even among those who want to be viewed as progressive, such as Shelley treating her future daughter-in-law like a fashionable accessory to be shown off. Yet the story unfolds in fits and starts, jumping forward to get to the most fertile comedic territory while montage-ing its way through the central relationship after its meet-cute origins. A topnotch cast – down to the tiny cameos – can’t fully redeem material that gets lost somewhere between satire and sitcom as assembled by star Jonah Hill and director Kenya Barris.

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'You People': Netflix's Interracial-Dating Romcom Tries Way Too Hard (Rolling Stone)

Even with an indecisive vision, comedy royalty (Jonah Hill! Eddie Murphy! Julia Louis-Dreyfus!) eke out a laugh or two in Kenya Barris's film.

And even with all of the timely jokes about vaccines and Kanye West, the film only manages to rehash old arguments and then throw them away for a sense of family it hasn’t earned — a shoehorned solution that makes the film feel less like a modern take and more like the same old race movie with a new pair of Air Jordans. [Eddie Murphy](https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/eddie-murphy-speaks-the-rolling-stone-interview-111885/) lands plenty of lines that soften the antagonistic aspects of his character, and [Julia Louis-Dreyfus](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/julia-louis-dreyfus-on-post-election-veep-and-why-we-still-love-elaine-benes-194422/) practically steals the entire damn thing as Ezra’s well-intentioned and overbearing Jewish mother Shelley Cohen. Any chemistry the two have in scenes, and there is some chemistry, often wanes under the collective incompatibility of their families. When Ezra accidentally mistakes Amira Mohammed’s ( [Lauren London](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/lauren-london/)) car for his ride share, the two set upon a whirlwind romance full of differences that threaten to tear their relationship apart. The central meet-cute is playful and awkward in a way that veers closer to endearing than cringe-worthy. [You People](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/netlfix-kenya-barris-you-people-trailer-1234641450/), the feature directorial debut of [Kenya Barris](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/kenya-barris/) (black-ish), is the next great romantic comedy.

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Netflix's 'You People' digs into Black-Jewish relations. It also plays a ... (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

The Jonah Hill-Eddie Murphy comedy features a Kanye West song and some off-color Holocaust jokes.

As a Jew himself, he said it was also important to him that the film’s depiction of Judaism be “authentic.” [Louis Farrakhan](https://www.jta.org/2018/03/02/united-states/louis-farrakhan-anti-semite-still-relevant), whose antisemitism gets a small acknowledgement, although the wedding at the end of the film is jointly officiated by a cantor and an imam meant to represent the Nation of Islam. “It was important, I think, for us to have that song remain, so that it portrayed the divide that they would have to cross,” Misher said. Detailed discussions of antisemitism, the filmmakers believed, would have distracted from that. But Misher told JTA that he thought the film did an admirable job of portraying a specific “culturally Jewish” Los Angeles family. There are other racially charged moments in the film that may sit uneasily with Jewish viewers. Jewish museum.) He also hired an on-set Jewish cultural consultant from Hebrew Helpers, a nationwide Jewish studies tutoring service. [popular song that includes the N-word in its title](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubRUS8GupLU) at two different intervals — first as a joke about Hill’s character being unable to say the title, then at the end under a hora — takes on a heightened meaning today. (The film’s premiere on Netflix on Friday coincides with International Holocaust Remembrance Day.) And when they don’t understand each other, they understand that there are, in fact, differences.” “It wasn’t about the artist of the song, it was about the words in the song.” … People grow to understand each other.

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'You People' Review: Eddie Murphy and Jonah Hill Face Off in ... (Collider.com)

Even with a fantastic comedic cast, You People feels more like a series of sketches than an actual film.

But instead, You People is a missed opportunity, a half-assed reinterpretation that is only sporadically funny, and without the heart or the substance that this story would need for it to truly work. At times, it really feels like You People is just Barris throwing out all the scenarios one should expect in this type of film, never quite worrying about how long or how short of a time he spends in these moments, but instead, just focusing on spending any time in them. As it stands, You People is like an amalgamation of sketches with unusual timing, thrown together in an attempt to have some semblance of a coherent narrative. Yet You People lacks any of the insight or cleverness that made black-ish such a gem, instead feeling like a stitched-together collection of scenarios without much in the way of heart or humor. This begins the awkward clashing of worlds between the Cohen and Mohammed family, as Akbar doesn’t think Ezra is good enough for his daughter, while Ezra’s parents Shelley (Louis-Dreyfus) and Arnold (Duchovny) don’t know how to act now that their family is about to become more diverse. For eight seasons, Barris’s show was able to tackle difficult topics like police brutality, the 2016 presidential election, and racism within the span of a little over twenty minutes delicately and with insight.

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Eddie Murphy's New Netflix Movie 'You People' Sparks Huge Online ... (Newsweek)

"Great movie, really great message and just funny," raved one "You People" viewer after watching the Jonah Hill and Eddie Murphy-led project.

"I just wanted to make sure that is a story that I wanted to contribute to. So, to me, it had to be about their soul connection and not what we saw appearance-wise or [why] we would assume these two people would date." While another said: "Netflix's #YouPeople is uncomfortable. One viewer posted: "#YouPeople are really trying to cram in as as many jokes as they can and it's coming off really try-hard and cringey. While another said: "Safe to say i enjoyed #Youpeople on @netflix. It's best in the first half hour then goes down hill fast, turning into a staggeringly unfunny, ineffective satire from a lot of major talents that should do better. One viewer posted after watching the film: "Do yourself a favor and check out #YouPeople on Netflix... I want more of these films." HILARIOUS movie." I [also] asked them, 'OK, well, why her and him?' Because she was written like hella stylish and he was like this... Like...ok Jonah's character is a white man who listens to hip hop and has Black friends. Move on."

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You People review: Eddie Murphy, Jonah Hill try to solve racism with ... (Polygon)

From Black-ish creator Kenya Barris, Netflix's Eddie Murphy/Jonah Hill team-up is a dispiriting and dull use of tremendous comedic talent that includes Veep ...

All of this is a shame, because even if the movie is barely directed, it is stacked with comedic legends, some of whom can actually get good laughs out of Hill’s signature mumblecore bullshitting. In this mode, You People comes across as both insincere as a whole, and disingenuous when it comes to Ezra’s character. It’s fun when the actor is a supporting character, less so when he’s one of the protagonists. There can be catharsis in making fun of this in conversation or art, and it can even be a channel for growth and moving past said difficulties — which is where the appeal of a movie like Regardless of how well-meaning a person can be, any challenge to their baseline assumptions about life and the world is going to be uncomfortable and disorienting, and missteps will be made. In a beat that feels fairly true to life, neither of them fully anticipates how weird their respective families will be about their relationship.

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Why Kenya Barris Wanted 'You People' To Be His Feature ... (Forbes)

The director, co-writer, and co-producer's culture clash romantic comedy is also a love letter to LA.

It shows the hood, it shows Brentwood, and it shows Hollywood, and so on. I learned so much, and that was such an opportunity, but it took me a month and a half, maybe two months, to get away from directing and then think about it again because directing is all-consuming. I understand why the comparisons to Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and Meet the Parents, but it's a wedding movie. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner did not come to my mind until people said it, and I was like, 'Oh, I get it.' The rules are so reversed. Barris: Jonah and I wanted to do a love letter to LA. I got to see 1,200 people at the premiere, and it played like I wanted to play. I felt well prepared for that part of it because of the years of production, and it helped me not get treated like a first-time director. When you go into it with the idea that you're making a theatrical movie, and it's not that, it affects how you approach it. If I were to make another streaming movie, I would go into it with the notion that I was making this for streaming. The part I wasn't prepared for was that with movies, a lot of it is about talent management. I think moving forward, that would be something I would want to lean in on, those relationships and things that I've made in the past years, to make people feel comfortable that you're going to try to take care of them and do your best. Kenya Barris: I've been asked to do one a bunch of times, but I knew whatever it was that I directed, I definitely wanted to write.

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Kenya Barris' 'You People' Controversy Explained (TV Insider)

But doesn't this story sound redundantly similar to previous Barris works? That's what many believed once Netflix dropped the trailer, which sparked controversy ...

Holmes Officially Out at ABC News Following Reveal of Affair](https://www.tvinsider.com/1079110/t-j-holmes-amy-robach-gma3-exit-good-morning-america/) [5Apple’s Funny-Sad ‘Shrinking,’ Comedy Star Power (Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Lopez) in Streaming Movies, Roots in Residency, Figure Skating on NBC](https://www.tvinsider.com/1078920/shrinking-harrison-ford-shotgun-wedding-eddie-murphy-jennifer-lopez-you-people/) It was also [met with a lukewarm response](https://twitter.com/cursedhive/status/1354916245611671557). [BlackAF](https://www.tvinsider.com/show/blackaf/), [triggered a response](https://twitter.com/MrJeromeTrammel/status/1208477495407915008) from audiences for only reflecting the stories of light-skinned and biracial characters. Although the reasoning behind his casting decisions has been explained in the past and come from an altruistic place, people have continued to hold the creator to task for not exploring the diversity of African Americans as he is continuously given the opportunity to helm projects focused on Black people. [Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner](https://www.tvinsider.com/show/guess-whos-coming-to-dinner/)? In a previous discussion with People, Barris also mentioned the inception of black-ish. Let us know in the poll below. … So I take the good with the bad.” London will play the daughter of dark-skinned parents, Murphy and Long, in You People. You People features Hill as a boyfriend hoping to get the approval of his girlfriend’s (London) parents, played by Long and Murphy. (The movie debuted in limited theaters on January 20, a week before hitting the streamer on January 27.) But more than anything, folks were more disturbed by his frequent use of interracial couples at the center of his projects. Cause at this point, I’m starting to think his ancestors were THE Loving v.

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What to Watch This Week: 'You People,' 'Poker Face,' 'Shotgun ... (Complex)

Here are the new movie and TV releases you should be watching this weekend. From Netflix's 'You People,' to 'Poker Face,' 'Shotgun Wedding,' and more.

(I wish I had that kind of talent!) Every episode will introduce a strange crime that Charlie will use her skill to solve, and will feature a wide range of some pretty incredible guest stars. In his feature film directorial debut, Kenya Barris aimed to deliver a rom-com that was different from the rest by adding a level of tension and cultural differences that many of us experience in our love lives. [Poker Face](https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/poker-face-season-1-peacock-review/) hit Peacock this week on the TV side, while Netflix’s You People and Prime’s Shotgun Wedding are kicking off the month of love with fresh rom-coms ahead of Valentine’s Day. [ this year’s Oscar nominees ](https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/karla-rodriguez/oscar-nominations-2023-biggest-takeaways)and while there were some disappointments, there were also deep moments of excitement at the possibility that things might be progressing slightly in the awards world. In honor of Everything Everywhere All At Once receiving 11 nominations, the most of any other film this year, the A24 project will be making a [return to theaters](https://collider.com/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-returning-theaters/) this weekend. A rideshare mix-up in Los Angeles is the perfect meet-cute for Ezra Cohen (Jonah Hill) and Amira Mohammed (Lauren London) in Netflix’s You People.

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How Kenya Barris assembled an all-star cast for his rom-com <em ... (EW.com)

'Black-ish' creator Kenya Barris opens up about his Netflix rom-com 'You People' and why he wanted to make a 'love letter' to L.A. culture.

They were enjoying each other, and they were bonding, but I needed to get to the scene, and no one was really listening to me. I think the difference between TV actors and people doing a movie is that TV actors are, like, going to the rock quarry. I also love that we got to put this movie out at a time when it's so prescient in the conversation right now. I was like, "This is not supposed to happen." They want to know how big their trailer's going to be, and they want to do this or they want to do that. It's a really interesting geographic setup for the city, and those are the things I think we wanted to show. I was like, "Hold on, what?" So from there, we started getting into our love of L.A., and we decided we really wanted to write a love letter to the culture. He was in a relationship with someone from another culture, and we had a conversation about how, in that situation, it's not usually the [couple] that are the problem. That was something that felt really specific to L.A. But we started really talking because I was such a huge admirer of Mid90s. I was a huge fan of his for forever.

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Should You Watch 'You People' on Netflix? Our Play, Pause, Stop ... (What's on Netflix)

The new film from Black-ish creator Kenya Barris & comedy star Jonah Hill, You People, is now streaming, but should you give it a watch?

As for me, I thought the film had some standout scenes & performances, but ultimately felt too familiar to stand out amongst its influences and Barris’ previous projects. Playing the overbearing & inflexible father is the perfectly casted Eddie Murphy, who takes his temperament & stubbornness from 1967’s Spencer Tracy but put into many of the similar situations of Bernie Mac’s comedic approach. His comedy style breaks up the stitched-together philosophical text that persists throughout. The film is exactly what we have been accustomed to with Barris’ work. Shoot a dart at a Kenya Barris project, and you will probably land on the same key elements every time. Maybe because he co-wrote the film, but it seemed like the film’s humor is largely derived from Hill’s performance.

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Netflix's 'You People' digs into Black-Jewish relations (thejewishchronicle.net)

(JTA) – The new Netflix comedy “You People,” about an uneasy union between a Jewish man and a Black woman in Los Angeles, was always aiming to provoke its ...

[Louis Farrakhan](https://www.jta.org/2018/03/02/united-states/louis-farrakhan-anti-semite-still-relevant), whose antisemitism gets a small acknowledgement, although the wedding at the end of the film is jointly officiated by a cantor and an imam meant to represent the Nation of Islam. As a Jew himself, he said it was also important to him that the film’s depiction of Judaism be “authentic.” “It was important, I think, for us to have that song remain, so that it portrayed the divide that they would have to cross,” Misher said. Detailed discussions of antisemitism, the filmmakers believed, would have distracted from that. But Misher told JTA that he thought the film did an admirable job of portraying a specific “culturally Jewish” Los Angeles family. There are other racially charged moments in the film that may sit uneasily with Jewish viewers. [popular song that includes the N-word in its title](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubRUS8GupLU) at two different intervals — first as a joke about Hill’s character being unable to say the title, then at the end under a hora — takes on a heightened meaning today. Jewish museum.) He also hired an on-set Jewish cultural consultant from Hebrew Helpers, a nationwide Jewish studies tutoring service. (The film’s premiere on Netflix on Friday coincides with International Holocaust Remembrance Day.) [prominent Black celebrities](https://www.jta.org/tag/kyrie-irving) who have dabbled in antisemitism. And when they don’t understand each other, they understand that there are, in fact, differences.” “It wasn’t about the artist of the song, it was about the words in the song.”

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Netflix rom-com 'You People' can't answer its hard questions (SFGate)

The rom-com starring Jonah Hill and Eddie Murphy tackles controversial issues on interracial dating, but can't stick the landing.

He, a Jewish man, was genuinely confused about the vitriol coming from the Black community. The day after [Kyrie Irving](https://www.sfgate.com/sports-columns/article/kyrie-irving-masks-tweet-column-16474374.php) had his [infamous press conference](https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/kyrie-irving-antisemitism-non-apology-for-movie-17555214.php), my best and longest friend sent me a message.

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Sam Jays Calls Working Alongside Jonah Hill in 'You People' a ... (Complex)

“To be able to discover this character across from somebody as talented as Jonah Hill was the dream come true,” Jay tells Complex. “I'm a big Jonah Hill fan, a ...

I’m in this place in life where I’m just super open to what’s next, and excited about the limitlessness of the possibilities. You said you don’t want to be boxed in as just a comedian and you brought up Marvel. I hate to say that in such a cliché way, but it’s the job of any artist to comment on what’s going on in society and bring a microscope to some of what is happening. Sometimes things happen in this business and you can’t really believe they’re happening to you and you’re just like, “Is this for real?” You got to take the little kid in you down a notch when you walk into the space. “The more I learn and grow, the more I’m like, ‘I’m an artist and I like to create things and I just want to be able to create things for as long as possible.’” Do you think it’s important for a comedy to cover these sorts of topics and conversations? But I also am a woman and I have a nurturing side of me that just is natural. Yeah, I think I am that to a lot of my homeboys. I read this stuff and I was like, “This stuff feels solid.” Especially the relationship between Mo and Ezra. But Barris was right, Jay is a pleasant addition to the story and more than holds her own in the film among the greats. Working in television is much different than making a film, especially for someone like the comedian who is used to being involved in behind-the-scenes processes like writing and producing. “I’m a big Jonah Hill fan, a real fan, so I definitely was fangirling a little bit during the breaks.

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If not for Eddie Murphy, Netflix rom-com 'You People' wouldn't have ... (Wyoming Tribune)

Already there's a huge range of reactions to “You People,” which debuted on Netflix Friday after a week in a few theaters for appearance's sake. Hilarious?

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'You People' Review: Kenya Barris' Terrible Interracial Comedy ... (Daily Beast)

In this totally irrelevant interracial dating comedy (that felt old in 1967), director Kenya Barris continues to fixate on stereotypical notions of ...

The result is that You People is another one of Barris’ flawed think pieces. With Hill and Murphy at the center, You People had the potential to fit in some laughs, even if the overall material is lacking. Simply put, it’s not enough to depict the obvious tensions between Black and white people, which You People does to nauseating effect. Another absurd aspect of the film is how characters react to the idea of co-mingling with other races, despite living in present-day Los Angeles. It’s equally frustrating that Ezra is often positioned as the partner with the most to be concerned about upon entering this union. On the other hand, it’s frustrating that the main antagonist in this film is an ultra-conservative Black man. Rather, his perspective on Black people and the way we currently exist in the world has proven to be, in a word, problematic. More painfully, the film contains the lowest bar of racial comedy, from a scene where Akbar forces Ezra to play basketball with a group of Black men to another where he tries to provoke him into saying the N-word while listening to Jay-Z. The first time he appears on-screen, he’s wearing a black hoodie declaring the obvious sentiment, “Fred Hampton Was Murdered.” He’s a member of the Nation of Islam and a proud supporter of Louis Farrakhan. The prequel to Barris’ hit ABC show [Black-ish](https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-black-ish-has-a-gay-problem), the interracial family-based comedy Mixed-ish, garnered [many of the same complaints](https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/10/mixed-ish-thomas-chatterton-williams-race/600679/). Black Twitter, as well as some TV critics, raised a number of objections to the one-season sitcom. Such was the response to his first Netflix venture #blackAF, released at the start of the pandemic.

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Kenya Barris Hand Picked Sam Jay For 'You People,' Netflix ... (BET)

Netflix's latest film You People is a hilarious romantic comedy that stars Eddie Murphy, Jonah Hill, Lauren London, Nia Long and Sam Jay.

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'You People' Traffics In Progressive Guilt, Lack of Laughter ... (Hollywood in Toto)

You People packs potential, from its superb cast to the culture clash awaiting the couple in question. Here's how it all goes wrong.

The bigger issues plaguing “You People” are easy to spot. We never get to see why Ezra and Amira click, and the film introduces Akbar’s strong Islamic faith ( HiT or Miss: “You People” begins with a strong premise along with some solid laughs. And, in the eyes of Barris and Hill, interracial marriage seems like “Mission: Impossible” in 2023. People of every race, creed and color miss out on plum assignments all the time. Those awful chapters in world history are joined by dramatically smaller narratives, part of the progressive mindset that Barris and Hill drill into their story. It’s hard to watch people mired in microaggression misery when you’re trying to enjoy a rom-com. Somehow, Ezra and Amira exude, if not chemistry, the sense that they’re lovers staring down a brutal reality. No one seems to “get” him, and even the women who seem like prime dating material can’t make his heart flutter. The other note beaten to death? Cultures clash and Ezra’s parents behave like the most ignorant liberals on Planet Earth. Then he meets (cute) Amira (Lauren London), a fiercely independent woman who happens to be black.

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Jonah Hill steps out for the night with girlfriend after the release of ... (Daily Mail)

The 38-year-old hit the streets in Malibu, California, with some friends and his girlfriend, Olivia Millar, as they made their way to a venue for their ...

Jonah added, 'If I made myself sicker by going out there and promoting it, I wouldn’t be acting true to myself or to the film. Jonah directed the film, and the actor also starred in the movie, which centered around his therapist, Dr. I usually cringe at letters or statements like this, but I understand that I am of the privileged few who can afford to take time off. His advocacy for mental health was shared after his documentary with Netflix called Stutz was released in November. Phil Stutz Out on the town: Jonah Hill was spotted on a night out with some friends and his girlfriend Olivia Millar

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