Fruitvale

MUST SEE: Ryan Coogler's Fruitvale (US, 2013) - A well-intentioned attempt to put a human face on the tragic headlines surrounding Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old California resident fatally shot by a San Francisco transit police officer on New Year's Day, 2009, writer-director Ryan Coogler's confident debut feature, "Fruitvale," gets significant mileage from Michael B. Jordan's star turn. Yet even if every word of Coogler's account of the last day in Grant's life held up under close scrutiny, the film would still ring false in its relentlessly positive portrayal of its subject. Best viewed as an ode to victim's rights, "Fruitvale" forgoes nuanced drama for heart-tugging, head-shaking and rabble-rousing. 2013SUN. RATING: 8