Candyman's Queer Couple Was Haunted by the White Gaze

In director Nia DaCosta's Candyman, a new generation of Chicagoans finds themselves in a gentrified Cabrini-Green that bears little resemblance to the neighborhood in Bernard Rose's 1992 film of the same name-which is still being terrorized by the titular hook-handed, vengeful spirit. Most everyone knows (on some...