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By Jesus2464873 (1) on 27 Feb 2021

Andra Day gives the performance of the year! Of a lifetime! It’s her debut performance…

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By Donald Clarke (1,051) for The Irish Times (483) on 26 Feb 2021

For all its abundant flaws, The United States vs Billie Holiday is clearly the work of a man with hot celluloid running through his lymphatic…

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By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN (497) on 26 Feb 2021

Thanks to the power of the subject matter and Day's knockout performance, The United States vs. Billie Holiday is worth seeing…

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By Matt Zoller Seitz (637) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 26 Feb 2021

The United States vs. Billie Holiday is so misguided that it's hard to know where to start griping about it…

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By Brent_Marchant (762) on 26 Feb 2021

Despite fine performances by Andra Day and Trevante Rhodes, director Lee Daniels's attempt at depicting the troubled life of jazz singer Billie…

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By Mrmonster (176) on 26 Feb 2021

Unfortunately, a great performance from Andra Day does not save this poorly written, poorly executed movie from mediocrity…

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By Kennylee0128 (1) on 26 Feb 2021

A film that can be enjoyed (and perhaps even admired) despite its various flaws…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 26 Feb 2021

Andra Day looks and sounds like every inch the movie star in the performance numbers and when Billie enjoys rare moments of peace and happiness…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Time (1,811) on 26 Feb 2021

The United States vs. Billie Holiday may be at times unfocused, but it’s never boring…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for ABC (67) on 26 Feb 2021

Singer Andra Day’s breakout star performance as jazz legend Billie Holiday raises this chaotic film above its faults by showing how Holiday…

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By Roxana Hadadi (336) for Polygon (677) on 26 Feb 2021

Billie Holiday’s skills as a talented singer, vibrant performer, and intuitive improviser never come first…

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By Tim Robey (1,578) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 25 Feb 2021

The United States vs Billie Holiday might be all over the shop – a tatty red carpet for its much-ballyhooed star turn…

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By Kevin Crust (344) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 25 Feb 2021

Within the confines of a straight-ahead, handsomely designed and photographed biopic beats the heart of a more adventurous presentation of…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 25 Feb 2021

Like nearly everything else in this feverish, frustrating movie, the political themes are handled with maximal melodrama and minimal clarity…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 25 Feb 2021

The film fails most importantly, almost inexplicably, at telling its story of governmental abuse and personal suffering in a coherent fashion…

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By Natalia Keogan (119) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 25 Feb 2021

The overlong and tedious film opts for rudimentary Oscar-bait trappings and a crudely voyeuristic portrayal of the renowned jazz singer—a…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 25 Feb 2021

So The United States vs. Billie Holiday is a misfire, and what a shame, because Andra Day had it in her to be great in this…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 25 Feb 2021

The movie — certainly Daniels’s best since “Precious” — is as turbulent and zigzaggy as Holiday’s life no doubt felt like to the…

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By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 25 Feb 2021

What the film does have is Andra Day, whose blisteringly raw central performance as the heroin-addicted musician brings a dynamic charge to…

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By Oliver Jones (215) for Observer (1,042) on 25 Feb 2021

You feel the late genius through the way Day carries her body, so lissome yet creaking with the weight of both her talent and addiction…

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