Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is impossible to ignore. What other way can one explain how this spellbinding adaptation of August Wilson's 1984 play not only boasts Oscar-winning actor Denzel Washington as a producer but Tony winner George C.
Wolfe as its director? More impressive still is the movie's ridiculously talented ensemble led by Oscar and Tony-winning Wilsonian Viola Davis and the incomparable Chadwick Boseman in his final and best performance.
Boseman lost his battle with colon cancer in August and the haunting intensity he brings to his role in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom forces the viewer to examine the blurry lines between the mortality salience the actor likely suffered and that of his character.
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