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From left: Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield in Judas and the Black Messiah
Yesterday’s powder keg, still simmering today.
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Daniel Kaluuya stars as Fred Hampton with LaKeith Stanfield as the FBI informant who betrayed both the Illinois Black Panther Party chairman and himself in Shaka King s powerhouse political drama.
The 1969 killing at age 21 of Illinois Black Panther Party chairman Fred Hampton was a potent secondary plot point last year in Aaron Sorkin s
The Trial of the Chicago 7. That same government hit job gets expanded treatment and wields proportionately explosive impact in Shaka King s
Judas and the Black Messiah, a historical thriller with an urgency that speaks even louder more than half a century later. Led by sensational performances from Daniel Kaluuya as Hampton and LaKeith Stanfield as William O Neal, the FBI informant who infiltrated his inner circle, this is a scalding account of oppression and revolution, coercion and betrayal, r