This is one of those "what more needs to be said?" reviews. Everybody who sees Black Panther seems to love it. And why not? It's a satisfying superhero movie. Its majority black cast – most heroic, some villainous, all complex and interesting – answers the prayers of a lot of moviegoers who have been pining for more diversity in the… read more!

The development of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was an exercise in blockbuster creativity: how do you make a sequel to a superhero movie after the untimely death of its beloved star? Ryan Coogler, who directed both films and who cowrote Wakanda Forever's screenplay with Joe Robert Cole, made it clear that he would not recast the role of T'Challa/Black Panther,… read more!

This dramatization of the final day in the life of Oscar Grant III, a young black man who was accidentally shot by a transit cop at the titular BART station in Oakland in the early hours of New Year's Day, 2009, certainly has good intentions. Writer/director Coogler, who hails from nearby Richmond, sought to help audiences see Grant as a… read more!