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The second key talent is the aforementioned Parker, who delivers the best performance of his career as Kaz Nicol, a police officer trying to follow in the footsteps of his father (Danny Glover), a respected Captain on the force. Kaz is more than that, however. He’s being positioned to run for an LA city council seat and the media firestorm after he saves Noni and is labeled a hero is speeding that campaign up, whether he wants it or not. Parker has simply never played such a well-rounded and rich leading character before. To say he takes the opportunity and runs with it is something of an understatement.

The third key element, and the most important, is Bythewood, who is best known for helming the cult-favorite drama "Love & Basketball" and the underrated period piece "The Secret Life of Bees." Before "Lights" screened, Bythewood shared with the audience how it took over four years to get the movie made and that she and her husband, producer Reggie Rock Bythewood, heard more "no" responses to the project than she can remember. Clearly, the financiers and studios that turned her down made a big mistake.

Beyond the Lights Bythewood has purposely taken on an almost impossible scenario and made it something special. On the surface, you should not care for Noni’s character or her goals. You should want Kaz, a true good guy, to run for the hills from her. Instead, the filmmaker uses the same skills she has to fashion a memorable romance in "Love & Basketball" here. You believe Kaz is smitten with the Noni behind the hip-hop façade. Granted, Bythewood benefits from some genuine chemistry between the two leads, but the romance succeeds because of her direction, not in spite of it.   

In every scene here, Prince-Bythewood calmly and sensitively melts our resistance to the outlandish, outsized quality of her plot and stays true to the message she wants to deliver without ever getting pious or preachy. The central relationship between Noni and Kai could use tightening, particularly in a love scene down in Mexico that feels a bit unnecessary, but their Mexican trip also contains the movie's best scene, where Kai charmingly tries to sing some karaoke for her and then she gets up and sings “Blackbird” a cappella. Mbatha-Raw sings the song with intense and sometimes touchingly oblique emotion, and Prince-Bythewood smartly captures a variety of reactions in the audience at the karaoke bar after the song is finished: some touched, yes, but some stunned and uncertain, too. It's in a detail like that that Prince-Bythewood shows her commitment to the likely truth of a given situation, and it is this commitment that lets her get away with making her message movie on show business integrity.

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Never is this commitment better displayed than in the way she handles Driver's mother, who could easily be a hissable villain but winds up being a three-dimensional person with a variety of feelings and reactions. “Beyond the Lights” advises us to throw away our weaves and put on some Nina Simone records, and that's a message we should all get behind.