Review: Steve McQueen’s Small Axe - Alex Wheatle is an intimate portrait of a Black artist as a young man

Alex Wheatle, the fourth installment of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology, is, like Red, White and Blue before it, a biopic focused on the origin story of an accomplished Black man descended from Caribbean immigrants to the UK. In this case, the story centers on Alex Wheatle, an award-winning auth...