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Judas and the Black Messiah

Runtime
2hrs 6mins
Directed by
Shaka King
Featuring
Daniel Kaluuya, LaKeith Stanfield, Jesse Plemons

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Wed 2/19
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FBI informant William O’Neal (Lakeith Stanfield) infiltrates the Illinois Black Panther Party and is tasked with keeping tabs on their charismatic leader, Chairman Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya). 

A career thief, O’Neal revels in the danger of manipulating both his comrades and his handler, Special Agent Roy Mitchell (Jesse Plemons). Hampton’s political prowess grows just as he’s falling in love with fellow revolutionary Deborah Johnson (Dominique Fishback). Meanwhile, a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul. Will he align with the forces of good? Or subdue Hampton and The Panthers by any means, as FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover (Martin Sheen) commands?

Reviews
Review Text

Daniel Kaluuya gives an electrifying performance that raises the hairs on the back of your neck.

Review Author
Odie Henderson
Review Publication
RogerEbert.com
Review Text

King's dual focus and stylish cinematic approach makes for a biopic that is at once rousing, maddening and desperately tragic.

Review Author
Katie Walsh
Review Publication
Tribune News Service
Review Text

King has pulled off the near-impossible, taking a story of an anticapitalist civil rights martyr who we know will have a tragic, bloody end, and approaching it with daring and confidence.

Review Author
Soraya Nadia McDonald
Review Publication
The Undefeated

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