Kings

Kings (2017) is a crime drama from director Deniz Gamze Ergüven you can watch online on iFILM. The setting is South Central Los Angeles in the spring of 1992, days before a jury reads its verdict and the streets catch fire.

Millie, played by Halle Berry, runs a crowded foster home in a neighborhood where the police feel less present than the gangs on the corner. When the acquittal in the Rodney King case sends crowds pouring into the streets, a short-tempered loner next door — Daniel Craig — gets dragged into her fight to keep eight kids alive through the chaos. Two adults, a houseful of children, a city burning between them.

Ergüven, the Turkish-French filmmaker behind Mustang, brings her handheld, up-close style to American ground. The focus wanders at times, yet Berry throws herself into the role and the unrest is staged with real grit rather than tidy archive distance. Stream Kings (2017) online on iFILM.