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One Night In Miami: Four Black '60s Legends Bare Souls In Regina King's Stagey, Passionate Directorial Debut
Review, PreviewJim SlotekOne Night in Miami, Regina King, Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, Jim Brown, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree, Leslie Odom Jr, TIFF 2019, Drama, Black stories
Original-Cin Q&A: Kingsley Ben-Adir talks playing Malcolm X in One Night in Miami and Obama in The Comey Rule
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InterviewJim SlotekOne Night in Miami, Regina King, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, Sam Cooke, Playwright Kemp Powers, Kingsley Ben-Adir, The Comey Rule, Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge, Leslie Odom Jr., Hamilton
Da 5 Bloods: Spike Lee squeezes a mini-series worth of contrivances to get us from Vietnam to Black Lives Matter
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