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Andra Day astonishes as Billie Holiday in Lee Daniels's maddeningly uneven biopic


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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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: ....

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The United States Vs. Billie Holiday review: A bloated biodrama


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Harry Jacob Anslinger, who started as a railroad bull, spent more than 30 years as the commissioner of the Treasury Department’s Federal Bureau Of Narcotics, running the first war on drugs, which was largely a war against jazz, Black people, and the Mexican border. Much of the lurid sensationalism attributed to him (but mostly written by others) has passed into stoner legend. But the historical record tells us that these scare tactics stories of white teenagers driven to madness and murder by Cab Calloway had little influence on public opinion, and that Anslinger’s own motives and statements were contradictory. For the most part, he was after budgets and bureaucratic power. ....

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'The United States vs. Billie Holiday' Review: Scattered but Scorching, and a Must-See for Andra Day's Performance


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The United States vs. Billie Holiday Review: Scattered but Scorching, and a Must-See for Andra Day s Performance
Lee Daniels biopic showcases Billie Holiday as a searing political artist, persecuted for singing Strange Fruit.
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Director: Lee Daniels
With: Andra Day, Trevante Rhodes, Garrett Hedlund, Leslie Jordan, Miss Lawrence, Adriane Lenox, Rob Morgan, Natasha Lyonne, Da’vine Joy Randolph, Tone Bell, Evan Ross, Tyler James Williams, Blake DeLong, Dana Gourrier, Melvin Gregg.
The gifted and mercurial Lee Daniels, director of “Precious,” is one of the only filmmakers I can think of who would dare to drop a badass-diva moment of Billie Holiday violently slapping her spouse into the middle of an otherwise giddy celebrity-singer-on-tour montage. In Daniels’ “The United States vs. Billie Holiday,” Billie, played with glamorous, blowsy, dagger-eyed f ....

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