In the middle of a summer of dumb fun and comic-book escapism, it’s some kind of miracle to find a film as seriously ambitious, scrappy and suspenseful as Luce. A provocation about race, privilege and ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. Note: This is a re-post of our Luce review from ...

Regardless of the premise behind the age-old foundation we still call the American Dream, not all are afforded the same prosperous outcome. Only the most powerful are granted the benefit of the doubt ...

It is a given that expectations can be a double-edged sword. Yet what can be ambiguous is how those expectations are wielded. When someone is stereotyped to fail the menace is self-evident, but what ...

Rising star Kelvin Harrison Jr. plays an African youth adopted by white parents who comes under suspicion in gifted director Julius Onah's tough look at prejudice. In its new form, as a ...

A cruel story of youth, race and the politics of respectability, “Luce” grows out of a conflict between a high school history teacher, Harriet Wilson (Octavia Spencer), and one of her star pupils, ...

Luce begins with a provocation. The film’s plot is set into motion by an essay that Luce Edgar (played by Kelvin Harrison Jr.), a star student at a suburban high school, turns in to one of his ...

To say that this feature unfolds like a play is both accurate and undersells just how gorgeously it has been rendered for the screen. By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

Julius Onah adapts the 2013 Off-Broadway play into a provocative actors showcase. At the root of “Luce” is a fascinating mystery, but its solution is beside the point. This smart and sophisticated ...

Watch a clip from the movie ‘Luce,’ directed by Julius Onah and starring Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer and Kelvin Harrison Jr. Photo: Neon & Topic Studios Instead of calling the high-school student at ...

Naomi Watts and Tim Roth worry about their adopted son Kelvin Harrison Jr. in Julius Onah's drama 'Luce.' By THR Staff An ambitious drama that can’t be content with its promising central conflict, ...