‘White Boy Rick’ Review: White Boy’s Burden | TIFF 2018

In all fairness to White Boy Rick, its subject Rick Wershe Jr., does have a pretty incredible story in how he was able to be an FBI informant and a drug kingpin all before the age of seventeen. Unfortunately, Wershe’s story is one set in a black community, and yet none of the black characters seem to have any inner lives or even consciences. That’s only reserved for Rick and his family, the white characters in the movie. Granted, movies don’t have to service every single character that comes on screen, but it’s kind of bizarre …

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