“Rockabye” (** out of four) was a gritty but limited street melodrama about a woman (Annie Ngosi Ilonzeh) whose father (Donald Brumfield, Jr.) dies by suicide but the more she investigates the more she begins to wonder if there was more than meets the eye especially as both her and his friends (Claudia Jordan, Garret Davis, and others) start dying one-by-one. Fast-paced enough to keep it watchable but covers all-too-familiar territory and thus never fully detonates. Similar to director Chris Stokes’ 2023 similarly titled “Rock The Boat.”

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