Is this the most radical film ever produced by Hollywood?
17 Feb, 2021 06:00 AM
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Daniel Kaluuya as Fred Hampton in Judas and the Black Messiah. Photo / Supplied
New York Times
By: Lawrence Ware
Judas and the Black Messiah is the rare Hollywood film to explore a vision of Blackness that has nothing to do with white audiences. Judas and the Black Messiah is a very good nearly great movie about charismatic Fred Hampton and the way the Black Panther Party was targeted by the United States government. Yet neither the standout performances from Daniel Kaluuya and Lakeith Stanfield nor the sensitive and insightful direction by Shaka King are the most remarkable aspects of the film: Not since Spike Lee s 1992 biopic Malcolm X has there been a mainstream American film this thoroughly Black and radical.
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