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Levee
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Slow Drag
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The downside to the film's almost musical rhythm is that it never quite transcends its stagey feel... On the other hand, it's hard to argue against the power of seeing Boseman or Davis' faces fill the screen.
January 12, 2021 | Full Review… -
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is pure art, just as beautiful as it is heartbreaking.
January 5, 2021 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review… -
Ma Rainey has the weight of Hollywood power players behind it, but it seems incapable or uninterested in taking advantage of the delights of what film can do.
December 23, 2020 | Full Review… -
You never forget that you're watching a play on film, but that's okay because the dialogue snaps and leaps -- it's so intense and so exquisite, and yet the emotion beneath it is real.
December 22, 2020 | Full Review… -
It has the sensibility of an Ernie Barnes painting throughout, capturing the many different hues of Black people... And then of course, there is the music, which is extraordinary. Good work all the way around.
December 22, 2020 | Full Review… -
Levee is a force that pummels through the film... Davis burns through the pageantry.
December 21, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
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