Honoring Motherhood — Warts and All — in a Rapidly Changing Harlem
Instead of deploying familiar hard-knock-life themes as dramatic shorthand, ‘A Thousand and One’ elevates them as down and dirty facts of life without a whiff of cliché.
Teyana Taylor, left, as Inez de la Paz and Aaron Kingsley Adetola as Terry in 'A Thousand and One.' Focus Features
