SummaryStarr Carter is constantly switching between two worlds: the poor, mostly black, neighborhood where she lives and the rich, mostly white, prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Now, facing pressures ... Read More
Directed By:George Tillman Jr.
Written By:Audrey Wells, Angie Thomas
The Hate U Give
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
81
User score
Generally Favorable
6.8
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
95% Positive
42 Reviews
42 Reviews
5% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Oct 3, 2018
100
A life-affirming rebuttal to apathy, despair and surrender. It’s also one of the year’s most important films.
Oct 4, 2018
89
The film has a stirring emotional honesty, and an impressive intelligence about its subject matter. It’s a film that may one day be required viewing for adolescents, and it might just change them the way that these events change its protagonist.
User score
Generally Favorable
73% Positive
112 Ratings
112 Ratings
8% Mixed
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
18% Negative
28 Ratings
28 Ratings
Jul 22, 2023
10
Probably one of the two most underrated films of 2018 (senior or more underrated), with an added turn, plenty of drama and emotion, very good performances and a powerful message against racism, elitism and hatred.
May 31, 2020
10
Amazing film especially with everything going on right now. Watch the movie.
Oct 14, 2018
83
While it deals in the traditional melodramatics, straight from the ‘ol Hollywood emotion factory, Tillman Jr.’s aim seems true. The Hate U Give feels so Right Damn Now that you could leave the theater and see its stories on the nightly news.
Oct 11, 2018
80
The movie’s most profound performance isn’t Stenberg’s, although their emotional lucidity makes them a good proxy for its intended young adult audience, but Hornsby’s, as a father fighting to prepare his children for a world in which the people who are supposed to protect them can be a profound threat.
Oct 19, 2018
75
Casting Amandla Stenberg to carry the project was an inspirational choice: She’s luminous and always captivating in the part, delivering a natural performance that allows easy access to Starr’s soul.
Sep 10, 2018
75
Despite the melodramatic ending, you leave the theater wanting to root for the film and its characters.
Sep 29, 2018
50
The film lays out the complexities of contemporary race relations with a deliberateness that frequently edges over into didacticism.
Dec 26, 2020
6
It's a shame this movie drifts into cheesy predictablilty in the final act after it's strong start.
Apr 5, 2019
6
Es interesante, es una historia moderna, varias pelis la abordan, me gusta le final q deja a los balncos y a la policia un poco bien, y me extraña q nunca se vulve a llevar con su amiga blanca
Jul 21, 2025
0
The worst movie I ever seen. Good thing it's just a work of fiction because there are human, animals, & insects on earth that would mistake a comb for a gun that the cops would just shoot at. Clearly another propganda film that failed. It would have been a much better film if they had dragons & unicorns.
Oct 24, 2018
0
Oh boy. YA fiction. The place that's been the most heavily segregated, divided, and marginalized, ironically, by far lefties claiming diversity. Just look at their reviews- they say the film wont get the attention it deserves- then look at the newspaper/publication reviews. The media has a heavy liberal bias (except for a small few, like Fox), and that liberal bias has now become puritanical in its reviews of films and all art, claiming moral truth, as with this film/book and others- the more intersectionally self-righteous and didactic, the more 'factual,' therefore the better the review- especially right around election time. And its not even going to work- people of all types hate having this stuff rammed down their throat- you cant force diversity and creativity. Freethinking comes from being liberal minded, not narrow minded. Period.
Production Company:
- Fox 2000 Pictures
- State Street Pictures
- TSG Entertainment
- Temple Hill Entertainment
Release Date:Oct 5, 2018
Duration:2 h 13 m
Rating:PG-13
Tagline:Two worlds, one voice, no going back
Awards
Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society Awards
• 3 Wins & 5 Nominations
Indiana Film Journalists Association, US
• 3 Wins & 5 Nominations
Image Awards (NAACP)
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations




























