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By Weedlol (1) on 12 Feb 2021

Judas and the Black Messiah had me strapped to my chair for 2 hours straight without getting up…

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By Popculturetoday (3) on 12 Feb 2021

Judas and the Black Messiah tells the story about an FBI informant William O’Neal who infiltrates the Illinois Black Panther Party and is…

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By Geeham (1) on 12 Feb 2021

What a fantastic movie with great directing from Shaka King. Daniel Kaluuya's performance is out of the charts…

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By Tropicaces (322) on 12 Feb 2021

Cool, tense and topical. At times plays out like a 1960s version of The Departed, with informant rats trying to stay in the weed…

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By Ratedrex (77) on 12 Feb 2021

Best film of the year. This is yet another example of how the American government kelp its knee on the throats of Black people…

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By Supermanmatos (2) on 12 Feb 2021

What a performance by Daniel Kaluuya, he should win the Academy Award for Best supporting actor…

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By Mrvrb (1) on 12 Feb 2021

This was an awesome movie...it was intense and I couldn't look away…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 11 Feb 2021

The film, directed by Shaka King from a script he wrote with Will Berson, is a special sort of twofer—a powerful, and candidly…

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By Oliver Jones (215) for Observer (1,042) on 11 Feb 2021

The strength of Judas and the Black Messiah is that it moves well beyond rhetoric, or even historic reconstruction for that matter…

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By Selome Hailu (10) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 11 Feb 2021

As Hampton, Kaluuya gives the best performance of his career…

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By Alissa Wilkinson (499) for Vox (725) on 11 Feb 2021

Judas and the Black Messiah is galvanizing, with an intoxicating energy that makes the story beats land with a jolt…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 11 Feb 2021

Judas and the Black Messiah represents a disciplined, impassioned effort to bring clarity to a volatile moment, to dispense with the…

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By Johnny Oleksinski (478) for New York Post (6,650) on 11 Feb 2021

Beyond simply embodying the quirks and look of a historical figure, Kaluuya’s passion makes you believe the masses would actually follow him…

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By Jake Coyle (526) for The Associated Press (882) on 11 Feb 2021

A potent and vividly acted drama about the FBI’s subversion and assassination of Chicago Black Panther leader Fred Hampton…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 11 Feb 2021

This is history, but it’s also alive…

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By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 11 Feb 2021

With Judas and the Black Messiah, King has made a thriller that speaks to history without feeling didactic, that keeps the audience in…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 11 Feb 2021

Although King’s film may not accomplish everything it sets out to do, it represents an important perspective of a time period whose…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 10 Feb 2021

This is a throwback movie in the best sense of the term, asking the audience to consider the not-too-distant past of anti-Black racism as…

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By Adesola Thomas (9) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 10 Feb 2021

Judas and the Black Messiah’s greatest success is not that it somehow humanizes the Black Panthers, but portrays the Black Panther…

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By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 04 Feb 2021

Judas and the Black Messiah is missing that deeper personal aspect, some sense of the emotional force yoking O’Neal and Hampton together,…

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