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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 03 Feb 2021

In a banner year for African American representation in front of and behind the camera, King looks like a filmmaker who will get more trips…

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By John Fink (368) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 02 Feb 2021

Despite a few missteps including its ambiguous treatment of female comrades in the film’s first two acts––including Hampton’s…

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By Siddhant Adlakha (174) for IGN (1,013) on 02 Feb 2021

Driven by its performances, and smuggling revolutionary politics into “award season” prestige, Judas and the Black Messiah makes for a…

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By Kevin Harley (322) for Total Film (3,532) on 02 Feb 2021

Between its genre know-how and furious anger, King’s biopic makes damn sure you feel the weight of Hampton’s loss – and the need for…

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By Phil De Semlyen (265) for Time Out (7,510) on 02 Feb 2021

First-time director Shaka King stages Hampton’s fiery speeches with a crackle and energy you can practically taste…

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By Chris Evangelista (306) for Slashfilm (971) on 02 Feb 2021

There’s are undeniably great moments in Judas and the Black Messiah, but one can’t help but think the movie needed to push itself just…

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By Odie Henderson (402) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 02 Feb 2021

In Judas and the Black Messiah, Daniel Kaluuya gives an electrifying performance that raises the hairs on the back of your neck…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 01 Feb 2021

Led by sensational performances from Daniel Kaluuya as Hampton and LaKeith Stanfield as William O'Neal, the FBI informant who infiltrated…

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By Karen Han (178) for Slate (2,081) on 01 Feb 2021

Though it’s early in the year, it doesn’t feel like a stretch to name it one of 2021’s best films…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 01 Feb 2021

Black Messiah's center of gravity has to be a Hampton you can't look away from, and Kaluuya — alternately raw, tender, and incendiary —…

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By Kate Erbland (681) for IndieWire (3,631) on 01 Feb 2021

Mostly, though, it’s Kaluuya and Stanfield — two actors who seem destined to be hailed for career-best turns with every subsequent…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 01 Feb 2021

The powerful film puts the current moment into fresh historical context and suggests that ambivalence can be its own form of betrayal…

Review of Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 01 Feb 2021

The story is infuriating — not in the way King presents it, not at all, but in its details. The manipulation of justice is heartbreaking…

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By Carlos Aguilar (278) for TheWrap (3,203) on 01 Feb 2021

Magnetic with righteous fury, Kaluuya plays Hampton with steel-plated conviction that has no time for half-measures…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 01 Feb 2021

Judas and the Black Messiah is my kind of dramatized Chicago history…

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By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 01 Feb 2021

Although Stanfield and Kaluuya offer up two compelling—and contrasting—performances, Judas And The Black Messiah is an ensemble piece…

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By Fionnuala Halligan (367) for Screen Daily (1,021) on 01 Feb 2021

Judas is an explosion of pent-up plotting, as if the film industry itself would only have this one chance to make a film about the Panther…

Review of Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

By Robbie Collin (1,612) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 01 Feb 2021

In some passages, the film abides by the biopic rulebook more carefully than it needs to; its best moments are the ones where King and his…

Review of Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

By Jimi Famurewa (28) for Empire (3,446) on 01 Feb 2021

Buoyed by a trio of standout performances, this freshly resonant thriller brings urgent life to one of the Black Panther movement’s…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 01 Feb 2021

As reinforced by every capacious widescreen frame of Sean Bobbitt’s cinematography, the movie is both a portrait and a panorama, a story…

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