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Framed by a pair of powerhouse performances, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom pays affectionate tribute to a blues legend -- and Black culture at large.
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Release date: Nov 25, 2020
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There aren't enough words to describe just how breathtaking Davis's performance is as Ma Rainey. When it comes to Boseman's, on the other hand, only one seems to suffice: Damn, damn, damn. December 2, 2020 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
There aren't enough words to describe just how breathtaking Davis's performance is as Ma Rainey. When it comes to Boseman's, on the other hand, only one seems to suffice: Damn, damn, damn.
Ann Hornaday
It goes without saying [Chadwick Boseman's] performance is brilliant, and yes, electric, but it's also heroic. If there had to be a final role, what a gift that it was this, an exclamation point to a career that seems ever more momentous. December 1, 2020 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
It goes without saying [Chadwick Boseman's] performance is brilliant, and yes, electric, but it's also heroic. If there had to be a final role, what a gift that it was this, an exclamation point to a career that seems ever more momentous.
Jocelyn Noveck
Boseman makes the character's eyes glitter with humor and rage and fear; Levee knows what he deserves and how far it remains out of his reach, and maybe so did the man playing him. It's a magisterial performance. November 26, 2020 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Boseman makes the character's eyes glitter with humor and rage and fear; Levee knows what he deserves and how far it remains out of his reach, and maybe so did the man playing him. It's a magisterial performance.
Ty Burr
This movie's primary strength is in Wilson's words, his facility with ideas and symbols and attitudes, and what the actors do with all of the above. The movie, as a movie, has its limits. But Wilson's material remains unbound. November 25, 2020 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
This movie's primary strength is in Wilson's words, his facility with ideas and symbols and attitudes, and what the actors do with all of the above. The movie, as a movie, has its limits. But Wilson's material remains unbound.
K. Austin Collins
Portraying the Mother of the Blues and dripped in fur and indignation, Viola Davis' Ma bursts through the screen and confinements of Rainey's era, standing tall and vibrant in each buttery frame of the film. November 25, 2020 | Full Review…
Portraying the Mother of the Blues and dripped in fur and indignation, Viola Davis' Ma bursts through the screen and confinements of Rainey's era, standing tall and vibrant in each buttery frame of the film.
Aramide Tinubu
Almost all the other actors on screen are bound to be underrated next to Boseman. November 23, 2020 | Full Review…
Almost all the other actors on screen are bound to be underrated next to Boseman.
Esther Zuckerman
Davis cannily underplays, issuing her demands and edicts about running the band from a drunken haze that she can snap out of without warning... Even so, your eyes are ineluctably drawn to Boseman's Levee. December 3, 2020 | Full Review…
Davis cannily underplays, issuing her demands and edicts about running the band from a drunken haze that she can snap out of without warning... Even so, your eyes are ineluctably drawn to Boseman's Levee.
Kristian M. Lin
...a double showdown-of characters and supreme acting talents. December 3, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
...a double showdown-of characters and supreme acting talents.
Josh Larsen
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom gives a different outlook on the roaring '20s, away from the gin, guns, and glamour that made Chicago the historical epicenter of "all that jazz." It is the Black experience. It is the other side of the bright lights. December 3, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom gives a different outlook on the roaring '20s, away from the gin, guns, and glamour that made Chicago the historical epicenter of "all that jazz." It is the Black experience. It is the other side of the bright lights.
Catalina Combs
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is truly a masterpiece of a film. Chadwick Boseman holds his own up against Viola Davis with a powerful final performance. December 2, 2020 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is truly a masterpiece of a film. Chadwick Boseman holds his own up against Viola Davis with a powerful final performance.
Tessa Smith
The film's director, George C Wolfe, a theatre veteran, is also confident enough in the power of his source material not to feel any great need to open the play up. December 2, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The film's director, George C Wolfe, a theatre veteran, is also confident enough in the power of his source material not to feel any great need to open the play up.
Alistair Harkness
Like Fences, Ma Rainey is an actor's showcase, yielding exemplary work from Davis and tragically indicating a complex range from Boseman in a career that was just beginning to blossom December 1, 2020 | Rating: A- | Full Review…
Like Fences, Ma Rainey is an actor's showcase, yielding exemplary work from Davis and tragically indicating a complex range from Boseman in a career that was just beginning to blossom
Christian Gallichio
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