{"id":113115,"date":"2016-01-22T09:33:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T14:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=113115"},"modified":"2022-09-30T12:38:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T16:38:53","slug":"naz-maalik-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=113115","title":{"rendered":"Review: <i>Naz &#038; Maalik<\/i> (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/large_51OkFFuFkzjShQKv0uhlkp7Yq6R.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/large_51OkFFuFkzjShQKv0uhlkp7Yq6R.jpg\" alt=\"large_51OkFFuFkzjShQKv0uhlkp7Yq6R\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-113116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/large_51OkFFuFkzjShQKv0uhlkp7Yq6R.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/large_51OkFFuFkzjShQKv0uhlkp7Yq6R-67x100.jpg 67w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/large_51OkFFuFkzjShQKv0uhlkp7Yq6R-133x200.jpg 133w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/large_51OkFFuFkzjShQKv0uhlkp7Yq6R-267x400.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nA story filled with so much potential! Naz and Maalik are two devout Muslim kids, living in Bed-Stuy, who have just taken their relationship into romance. It&#8217;s strictly forbidden. There are more pressures on them. But for the most part, we get to follow them around, listening to what they talk about when they&#8217;re alone. The best parts of the movie. Good New York street cinematography too. Doesn&#8217;t quite add up, though: not as powerful as it could have been. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/naz-and-maalik-2016\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">My review of <i>Naz &#038; Maalik<\/i> is now up at Rogerebert.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A story filled with so much potential! Naz and Maalik are two devout Muslim kids, living in Bed-Stuy, who have just taken their relationship into romance. It&#8217;s strictly forbidden. There are more pressures on them. But for the most part, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=113115\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[2555,2546,2668],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113115"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148358,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113115\/revisions\/148358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}