Lemmons’s biopic of Petey Greene, one of Washington, D.C.’s most notorious media personalities in the late 1960s and ’70s, gives conventional treatment to a decidedly unconventional man. The film is plenty engaging, especially with Don Cheadle and Chiwetel Ejiofor’s fine central performances, which sell their unlikely odd-couple brotherhood, and at times the film spurs genuine reflection about the interrelation between the media and their audiences. But it still makes one wish that Lemmons had found a stylistic and narrative corollary to her subject’s rebellious, firebrand persona. (DVD)