Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out) won the Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA in this true story drama as Fred Hampton, deputy chairman of the national Black Panther Party, who was targeted by the FBI. LaKeith Stanfield (Knives Out) co-stars as William O’Neal, a petty criminal coerced into helping the FBI silence the Black Panther Party. Also stars Dominique Fishback (Project Power), Ashton Sanders (Moonlight), Emmy nominee Jesse Plemons (Fargo: Season 2) and Golden Globe winner Martin Sheen as J Edgar Hoover.
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In Shaka King’s historical drama, Daniel Kaluuya plays a powerful—if slightly watered-down version—of Fred Hampton, radical leader of the Black Panthers, with LaKeith Stanfield as William (Bill) O’Neal, an informant cultivated by the FBI. It’s a compelling watch that will have you engrossed and hoping for events to turn out differently from what you may already know is coming.
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Delivered this boldly and with tension to spare only makes it hit that much harder.
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What makes "Judas" stand out is an emphasis on the personal aspects of a true revolutionary who tried to empower others for the greater good while unknowingly facing subterfuge from within.
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If anything, the fact that this film feels enervating and relevant 50 years later speaks to just how right Hampton was. You can kill a person, but you can't kill an idea.
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The powerful film puts the current moment into fresh historical context and suggests that ambivalence can its own form of betrayal.
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A nerve-wrenching conspiracy movie that ends up closing in on one of its conspirators.
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Shaka King's film, anchored by two sterling lead performances, complicates the expected narrative of martyrdom.
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Judas and the Black Messiah is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Apple TV and Neon and Neon Rentals and Academy On Demand and AroVision.
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