Luce

A star high-school athlete and debater, adopted as a child from war-torn Eritrea, comes under suspicion when a teacher finds something troubling in one of his essays. Kelvin Harrison Jr. plays Luce, with Octavia Spencer as the teacher and Naomi Watts and Tim Roth as his adoptive parents.

Julius Onah's film, adapted from J. C. Lee's play, refuses to settle on who is right. It's a sharp study of the expectations placed on young Black men to be perfect, and of how quickly suspicion forms around them.