Algee Smith

3 Algee Smith films on 4K Blu-ray, ranked S to D by transfer quality. 1 S-Tier pick including Judas and the Black Messiah.

Judas and the Black Messiah(2021)

7.3/10

dir. Shaka King

S-Tier

S-Tier Warner Bros. 4K. Shaka King's film about Fred Hampton with Daniel Kaluuya's Oscar-winning performance. The opening uses footage from Agnes Varda's Black Panther documentary, which Criterion fans appreciated. Not a lot of 4K-specific collector activity around this one yet.

Warner Bros. · 4K + Blu-ray

The Hate U Give(2018)

dir. George Tillman Jr.

B-Tier

Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her truth.

Detroit(2017)

dir. Kathryn Bigelow

A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest citizens' uprisings in the history of the United States.