The Michael Jackson Biopic Just Hit Streaming — The Questions It Dodged Didn’t Go Away

Antoine Fuqua’s Michael is in the business of making saints.The Michael Jackson biopic, which made $1 billion in theaters and is now available on streaming, is meticulous in its devotion: the gifted child stolen by a father who saw a cash register where a son should have been, the misunderstood genius too luminous for the world that consumed him. What Fuqua builds is a monument — lovingly constructed, carefully lit and nearly empty at the center.Which is a genuine shame, because he had the