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âThe Equalizerâ Review: Queen Latifah on the CBS Assembly Line
A new series puts a woman in the gun-toting Robin Hood role previously played by Edward Woodward and Denzel Washington, but not much else has changed.
Queen Latifah stars as a crusading former C.I.A. agent in a new version of âThe Equalizer.âCredit.Barbara Nitke/CBS
Feb. 4, 2021
Hearing that Queen Latifah is playing the title role in a new iteration of âThe Equalizerâ â that combination of latter-day Robin Hood and action-movie vigilante â inspires equal measures of expectation and dread. When she cuts loose, in movies like âBessieâ and âChicago,â she has a fierce and quick-witted swagger few performers can match. But will a CBS procedural drama give her the room to do anything besides cash checks for seven or eight years?