I Like It Like That

Darnell Martin’s audacious feature debut, one of the first films by a Black woman director to be produced by a Hollywood studio, is a loud, colorful New York drama that asks ‘How can love survive despite it all?’ Can it survive the weight of family separation due to arrest? Infidelity? Financial burdens? With a lot of heart and humanity, Lisette’s (Luna Lauren Valez) journey reminds us that no matter how far you run, you cannot escape the weight of yourself or the people you love.