One Night in Miami, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Monday, has created quite a buzz for the Academy Award winner.
According to Variety, the feature is “the first film by a Black woman to ever premiere at the 77-year-old festival.” But that’s not all.
Early screenings have critics hailing the movie as “well-acted history lesson,” a “captivating directorial debut,” and apropos, “a vibrant knock out.”One Night in Miami, which will have a gala premiere at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival, centers around a fictional conversation between Muhammad Ali (Riverdale’s Eli Goree), Malcolm X (High Fidelity’s Kingsley Ben-Adir), Otis Redding (Hamilton’s Leslie Odom, Jr.) and Jim Brown (Underground‘s Aldis Hodge).
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