Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

R ★ 7.3/10 125 min Drama, History Canada, United States English

Director: Shaka King

Screenplay by: Will Berson, Shaka King
Story by: Kenneth Lucas, Keith Lucas, Shaka King, Will Berson
Lyricists: Tiara Thomas, H.E.R.

Streaming: Not available

You can kill a revolutionary but you can't kill the revolution.

Description

Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends—falling for a fellow revolutionary en route—a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.

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Top Cast

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

Judas and the Black Messiah Appears on 3 Curated Movie Lists

Canon Institutions

Metacritic Must-See Movies of All-Time (Metascore: 81+/100) Redux

Metacritic #1084

National Board Of Review's Yearly Top 10

National Board of Review #46

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Black Directors The Official Top 100 Narrative

Letterboxd #19