Review of Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) by Richard Brody for The New Yorker — 16 Feb 2021
Judas and the Black Messiah needed a coup of casting in order to find a performance that’s up to the character of Hampton. Kaluuya’s seems, instead, to render the extraordinary more ordinary, to indicate and assert Hampton’s unique, historic character rather than embodying it.
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This review of Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) was written by Richard Brody and published by The New Yorker on 16 Feb 2021.
Judas and the Black Messiah has generally received very positive reviews.
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