While the story of Fred Hampton and his time as one of the leaders of the Black Panthers has been in some form of development for years, his tale of authority and betrayal is especially poignant in 2021, with “Judas and the Black Messiah” offered to audiences likely in tune with its message now more than ever. Co-writer/director Shaka King (“Newlyweeds,” “Shrill”) searches to bring Hampton’s life to the screen with a defined cinematic presence, and while that approach sometime backfires on him, the helmer supplies confident work here, creating powerful moments of command and panic, taking a biblical lead to detail what the Black Panthers were doing in the late 1960s, also understanding the lengths the F.B.I. went to make sure that sliver of hope never developed into anything. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com