The Knife

A worst day in your life type film, Nnamdi Asomugha’s directorial debut “The Knife” unsurprisingly plays on the racial fears of the moment. A white woman might be potentially dying on this Black family’s floor. Naturally, they don’t want to cover up the crime, so they nervously call the police and get their stories straight. Alexandra even plants a knife on the unconscious woman for good measure. Maybe they wouldn’t need to fabricate a narrative if Chris, who took some prescription pills before bed, could remember the exact sequence of events. But as Alexandra pointedly says in a bit of dialogue that’s too blunt to be piercing, “You’re a black man in America, Chris.”