Shatara Michelle Ford's film 'Test Pattern' follows a Black woman and her white boyfriend in the aftermath of her rape.

Over eight songs as the faux-Talking Heads band Test Pattern, Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, and Maya Rudolph lovingly poke fun at the continually sprawling concert experience.

In “Test Pattern,” a perceptive and often quite painful examination of sexual assault, relationship dynamics, racial divides, and the corrosive power of violence, the writer and director mines ...

“Test Pattern” achieves a lot with very little: The film’s nonlinear editing and cannily scored silences invite our interpretations, locating in them the entanglements of race and gender.

Shatara Michelle Ford’s feature feels conceived not for the purpose of revealing inner lives alone but to put society at large to the test.

Critics Pick ‘Test Pattern’ Review: A Shrewd, Socially Penetrating Relationship Drama A loving interracial relationship begins to fracture in the wake of a rape, in Shatara Michelle Ford's ...