The film is an anguished update of, and response to, Ousmane Sembène’s Black Girl.
Writer-director Nikyatu Jusu’s film ultimately proposes that survival is the greatest form of resistance.
Universal outfits Peele’s neurotic, fatally self-conscious film with a luxurious transfer that should please fans.
Peele’s follow-up to Get Out unnervingly speaks to the issues affecting a divided nation.