Review of The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021) by Ann Hornaday for Washington Post — 23 Feb 2021

It’s a fascinating story and well worth revisiting. But in the hands of director Lee Daniels, working from a script by the playwright Suzan Lori Parks, what should be a sensitive and densely layered drama instead becomes a perfunctory collection of scenes that feel overwrought and under-considered simultaneously.