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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Charlotte O'Sullivan

Aisha movie review: Letitia Wright’s portrait of everyday heroism is stunning in this refugee drama

Letitia Wright is so famous right now, that if she appeared in an ad for haemorrhoid cream it would get a gazillion views. She knows the world’s watching. Here’s what she wants you to see.

In April of last year, Wright took a break from filming Black Panther: Wakanda Forever to appear in this Irish drama about a young asylum seeker. Like Wright’s MCU character Shuri, Aisha Osagie is a brave and formidably smart African woman. Like Shuri, Aisha has recently lost a beloved brother and is the apple of her mother’s eye. Unlike Shuri, Aisha is a stranger to high-tech gadgets and globe-trotting missions. Stuck in a Dublin hostel for over a year, Aisha faces an uphill struggle simply to microwave her lunch.

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