'Luther: The Fallen Sun', Idris Elba’s Netflix Vehicle, Fails to Make the Point
By undermining the appeal and credibility of black characters, the show compromises the very idea of diversity and representation it sets to promote.

A dark comedy telling the tale of a man who wakes up from a coma with no memory, learning he may be a serial killer. He pieces his life back together one weird step at a time.
By undermining the appeal and credibility of black characters, the show compromises the very idea of diversity and representation it sets to promote.
A working class mom searches for her daughter.
‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ is preoccupied with plot and not on the greater struggle of the Osage.
Some people’s first introduction to Mira Nair might be as New York mayor Zohran Mamdani’s mom. But with her insightful direction of 1991’s Mississippi Masala, Nair shows how much she deserves to be known as an artist. Delivering a nuanced portrait of a romance between a Black man and an Indian woman living in the South, Nair explores the complications each character faces, giving both equal weight.
A film for the post-MeToo era that inverts the narrative with an ironic coda, Tár depicts the duality of a sensitive artist capable of great evil and vile manipulation.
Mark Anthony Green was unable to connect all of the pieces in his debut feature film, leaving Opus as a middling entry in an already oversaturated genre.