Judas And The Black Messiah

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	Daniel Kaluuya	Fred Hampton
	Lakeith Stanfield	Bill O'Neal
	Jesse Plemons	Roy Mitchell
	Dominique Fishback	Deborah Johnson
	Ashton Sanders	Jimmy Palmer
	Algee Smith	Jake Winters
	Darrell Britt-Gibson	Bobby Rush
	Lil Rel Howery	Wayne
	Dominique Thorne	Judy Harmon
	Martin Sheen	J. Edgar Hoover
	Amari Cheatom	Collins
	Khris Davis	Steel
	Ian Duff	Doc Satchel
	Caleb Eberhardt	Bob Lee
	Robert Longstreet	Leslie Carlyle
	Amber Chardae Robinson	Betty Coachman
	Ikechukwu Ufomadu	Walter Hicks
	James Udom	Compton
	Nick Fink	Fesperman
	Mell Bowser	Tex
	Alysia Joy Powell	Mrs. Winters
	Nicholas Velez	José Cha Cha Jiménez
	Aj Carr	Anthony Timmons
	Tommy Lafitte	Pool Hall Bartender
	Terayle Hill	George Sams

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Director	Shaka King
Writer	Will Berson, Shaka King, Kenneth Lucas, Keith Lucas
Producer	Will Berson, Allard Cantor, Jason Cloth, Ryan Coogler, Zinzi Evans, Ted Gidlow, Aaron L. Gilbert, Makiah Green, Poppy Hanks, Charles D. King, Shaka King, Niija Kuykendall, Keith Lucas, Kenneth Lucas, Anikah McLaren, Ravi D. Mehta, Jarrod Murray, Sev Ohanian, Kim Roth, Jeff Skoll
Musician	Craig Harris, Mark Isham
Photography	Sean Bobbitt

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My quick rating - 7,7/10. I only vaguely remember the tail end of court cases regarding this. Even then, I was far too young to understand the magnitude of what they were. But as anyone knows, the exact same thing that was causing issues in the 60s is the same shit that is happening today. The main focus of the Black Panthers political party was police brutality. Sound familiar? The focus of this movie was more of a story, that of the mole that was more or less forced into giving information to the police to try and get rid of them. Lakeith Stanfield gives a standout performance as the informant(competing with Daniel Kaluuya as Hampton, a Chicago branch leader). His inside info sets up the eventual assassination of the heads of the Chi Town chapter and dissolution completely. The flick takes accounts from the actual Bill O'Neal who gave a rare interview decades earlier, clips of which are shown to lead in and wrap up this tale. To see such a powerful story and how it still relates today to the police use of lethal force now is a grim reminder of just how long this has been an issue. From top to bottom, the movie looks right, flows extremely well and generally deserves the Best Picture winner, my prediction is locked.

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