Would it have hurt Matthew Stadler, in his review of “Police Beat,” to actually give us the name of the actor playing the protagonist? Or any other information about him?

Maybe it’s not actually racism, but it looks like it, and it’s a damn stupid thing for a movie reviewer to do. Brian Miller, over at Mr. Stadler’s competition, seems to have no such blind spot.

(The gentleman’s name, by the way, is Pape Sidy Niang. He played for Senegal in the Junior World Cup once upon a time, and “Police Beat” is apparently his first film.)