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Queen & Slim Directed by Melina Matsoukas Daniel Kaluuya Jodie Turner-Smith If you're like this movie-lover, you start making predictions right away, from the opening scenes.  In Queen & Slim, we open to witness a Tinder date going poorly.  But you know these two are going to fall in love, right?  The draw is not knowing how it will happen.  We want to know.  We're already pulling for them and trying to imagine what the catalyst will be, how the facades will crumble away. Daniel Kaluuya 's character, who is never referred to as Slim, is without pretense, if cautious in his efforts to discover the chink in the formidable armor of Jodie Turner-Smith's character, who is never referred to as Queen.   But alas, the date is a bust.  He's driving her home - his license plate reads "Trust God" - when fateful events unfold.  A rogue, racist cop pulls them over and the first stones of dismay and disbelief tumble and trigger a