Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

 'Judas and the Black Messiah' tells the true story of William O'Neil (Lakeith Stanfield) who infiltrated the Black Panther Party in the late 1960's as an FBI mole. O'Neil, who had previously been pretty non political agreed to do this in order to avoid jail time for, among other things, impersonating an FBI agent. Trouble is that the plant came to sympathize with the people and cause he was sent to undermine, and his tortured inner-self is at the core of the film. Daniel Kaluuya ('Get Out') plays Panther leader Fred Hampton, Jesse Plemons ('Bridge of Spies') plays O'Neil's FBI handler Roy Mitchell, and Martin Sheen (American stage, film and television 1961 on) plays FBI director J. Edger Hoover, and he's creepy. ***1/2