Review of The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021) by Joe Morgenstern for Wall Street Journal — 25 Feb 2021
The film fails most importantly, almost inexplicably, at telling its story of governmental abuse and personal suffering in a coherent fashion. And the disorganization of Ms. Parks’s script is enhanced by a succession of montages that must have been put together to camouflage narrative gaps.
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This review of The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021) was written by Joe Morgenstern and published by Wall Street Journal on 25 Feb 2021.
The United States vs. Billie Holiday has generally received mixed reviews.
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