Luce

It's a smart and provocative examination of unconscious bias and race in America.

Adapted by Onah and JC Lee from Lee's play of the same name, it's chilling and provocative, sharply written and sensationally acted by a cast of big-hitters and unknowns.

Kelvin Harrison jnr, the young star of It Comes by Night, is superb in a shifting, slippery role. ... A performance and a film worth mulling over.

It's Spencer's performance that ends up packing most of the film's heat. Where the other characterisations dither or flip-flop, hers deepens, intensified and shaken by the war of ideas.

Staginess stalks the enterprise throughout, a prowling figure in an opera cape, and ends by strangling everyone with the cords of loquacity, moralism and story contrivance.

Based on JC Lee's play, the script can be airless and contrived but you'll certainly be chewing the themes over long after the credits roll.

Julius Onah's psychological thriller is captivating, insightful and ultimately unforgettable.

Luce is a deeply layered, strategic thriller whose take on white guilt and black existentialism is always at a thoughtful boil. It’s one of the year’s very best films.

A stagelike drama to ask questions about America for which there are no right answers, just an ongoing dialogue, which the material hopes the audience will investigate for themselves.

A complicated psychodrama that revels in its ambiguities and, most interestingly, should be a post theatre conversation starter on topics of the pressure to be perfect, white privilege and trust.