New York cinemas reopen, brightening outlook for theaters
JAKE COYLE, AP Film Writer
March 5, 2021
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1of11Kathyn Dennet, center, and Brian Haver leave the IFC Center after viewing a screening on Mank , Friday, March 5, 2021, in New York. The couple who live in the Bronx came to Manhattan to view the movie at their favorite theatre. After growing cobwebs for nearly a year, movie theaters in New York City reopen Friday, returning film titles to Manhattan marquees that had for the last 12 months read messages like Wear a mask and We ll be back soon. Cinemas in the city are currently operating at only 25% capacity, with a maximum of 50 per each auditorium.Mary Altaffer/APShow MoreShow Less
Andra Day astonishes as Billie Holiday in Lee Daniels s maddeningly uneven biopic
Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post
Feb. 23, 2021
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1of3Andra Day and Kevin Hanchard in The United States vs. Billie Holiday. Takashi Seida/Paramount PicturesShow MoreShow Less
2of3Andra Day, left, and Trevante Rhodes in The United States vs. Billie Holiday. Takashi Seida/Paramount PicturesShow MoreShow Less
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Andra Day delivers an astonishing breakout performance as the complicated subject of The United States vs. Billie Holiday, in a movie that often feels like it s unworthy of both the actress and the persona she adopts so seamlessly.
From the first moments of this maddeningly uneven film, Day channels her complicated, contradictory protagonist with closely observed detail. When a fey, feather-headed journalist asks her what it s like to be a colored woman during a 1957 interview, she replies with a half-purr, half-snarl: Would you ask Doris Day that