Judas and the Black Messiah (★★★★☆). As portrayed by the ever-unpredictable LaKeith Stanfield (Atlanta), O’Neal is a mercurial mischief-maker, a steadfast soldier who’s also a calculated infiltrator.
Compromised by his own crimes and impulsiveness, he’s groomed as a plant by FBI Agent Roy Mitchell (Jesse Plemons), who spells out the Bureau’s purpose in targeting Hampton and the Black Panther Party.The Panthers are no different from the Klan, Mitchell asserts to O’Neal — just a flip side of the same racial animus that must be eradicated from this nation, by whatever means J.
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