News — White Boy Rick

White Boy Rick (2018) - USA   Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia)     Based on the true story of the youngest FBI informant Richard Wershe Jr, the film stays extremely grounded and surprisingly suffers from a lack of sensationalise cliches that could have elevated it to a different level. Instead, director Yann Demange wants to focus the story on the titled character and end up lacking any sympathy on the black demographics that was also hit badly by the drug wars where many lives and families were destroyed in the process. We get a Matthew...