By Any Means review – Mark Wahlberg and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II drama provokes with horror of 1960s racism

Elegance Bratton’s civil rights drama in the Jim Crow south confronts you with almost unbearable brutality Black people officially won the unrestricted right to vote in the US in 1965 but many still encountered hurdles on their path to the ballot box: 11 states in the south quickly introduced a poll tax requiring an annual fee to be allowed to vote.

The practice unambiguously targeted poor Black communities in an early form of thinly veiled racist voter suppression. Vernon Dahmer wouldn’t stand for it. In January…