The Visitor (2007)

A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.

Subdued, nicely staged and excellently performed small drama centered on immigration and personal responsibility.

Maltin***1/2: "Bracingly original film...Minimalist filmmaking at its best, a combination character study - with brilliant and nuanced performances - and commentary on the perils and pleasures of life in today's American melting pot."

Black Panther (2018)

T'Challa, heir to the hidden but advanced kingdom of Wakanda, must step forward to lead his people into a new future and must confront a challenger from his country's past.

Although it grandly delivers all the goods of a superhero comic adaptation, the makers even more successfuly create an uplifting African myth and contrast it it with the realities of our current world.

Mother of George (2013)