One Night in Miami...

    One Night in Miami...
    2020

    Synopsis

    In the aftermath of Cassius Clay's defeat of Sonny Liston in 1964, the boxer meets with Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown to change the course of history in the segregated South.

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    Cast

    • Kingsley Ben-AdirMalcolm X
    • Eli GoreeCassius Clay
    • Aldis HodgeJim Brown
    • Leslie Odom Jr.Sam Cooke
    • Joaquina KalukangoBetty X
    • Nicolette RobinsonBarbara Cooke
    • Michael ImperioliAngelo Dundee
    • Lawrence Gilliard Jr.Bundini Brown
    • Christian MagbyJamaal
    • Jeremy PopeJackie Wilson

    Recommendations

    • 91

      Entertainment Weekly

      A quintessentially American tale; profane, profound, and beautiful.
    • 91

      The Film Stage

      These four actors provide their roles with a bold presence both in their ability to impersonate physically and embody spiritually.
    • 91

      IndieWire

      One Night in Miami hits so hard because it remains joyfully, often painfully grounded in what makes a person extraordinary, even when the world isn’t ready for them. Here’s hoping this world is ready for what King has to show it.
    • 90

      Uproxx

      What a debut film it is. She gets just the right amount of tension and angst out of these four actors in a way that still makes it believable they might all still be friends or want to hang out together in the first place. It’s a movie about agendas.
    • 80

      The Guardian

      This is undeniably a very theatrical film, but it never hides that – indeed, it makes the most of a certain claustrophobia. It’s an immensely watchable evocation of a moment when black America was on the verge of an upheaval that continues to resonate, in 2020 as strongly as ever. It absolutely puts you – to coin a phrase of the time – in the room where it happened.
    • 80

      The Hollywood Reporter

      To some extent, One Night in Miami remains high-quality filmed theater. But the conviction and stirring feeling brought to it elevate the material, making this an auspicious feature debut. Here's hoping that King, one of our most consistently excellent screen actors, continues to spread her wings in this direction.
    • 75

      The A.V. Club

      As one might expect from a movie based on a play and directed by a famous actor, dialogue and performances are the driving force.
    • 70

      Screen Daily

      King’s debut makes attempts to widen out the stage play, but there’s no denying the fact that this is an exchange of ideas as opposed to a narrative, or that dialogue is often pitched as monologue. What ideas, though, and what a night.

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