Luce (2019)

From what I recall, Jack and I thought this was good. Octavia Spencer is a teacher, suspicious of her upstanding African-born student (Kelvin Harrison Jr.), who was adopted as an infant by wealthy white parents, played by Naomi Watts and Tim Roth. Imdb categorizes it as drama and mystery. It earned a handful of festival nominations and wins.

Julius Onah directs from a screenplay co-written by him and JC Lee, the latter of whom wrote a 2013 play on which the script is adapted.

I'm streaming the eerie and lovely score by Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury on Apple Music as I type.

Spencer was last blogged for The Shape of Water, Harrison for JT LeRoy, Watts for The Last Castle, Roth for The Hateful Eight, Barrow and Salisbury for Annihilation. Onah has co-written one other feature and directed that one and one other, and this is Lee's feature debut.

Rotten Tomatoes' critics liked this a lot, averaging 90%, while its audiences were looser at 77.

We saw this in a theatre the second half of 2019 but I forgot to write about it at the time and was reminded just yesterday. You can stream it with your Hulu subscription or rent it on iTunes.