A 1930s movie palace adorned with an art-nouveau mural of two ... of T'Challa's tech-savvy sister Shuri are starved for big-screen heroes. And Black Panther allows them to believe the same thing ...

Wakanda and its metropolis, dominated by modern high-rise buildings, is a technically advanced nation in Africa that is cut off from the outside world and pretends to be a poor third world country ...