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Judas and the Black Messiah review: this Black Panther biopic is a nuanced triumph Charlotte O'Sullivan Daniel Kaluuya gives a career-best performance (which rightly won a Golden Globe, and this week garnered a Bafta nomination) in this sly genre movie that director Shaka King likens to a “Trojan horse”. King’s using the language of war, but don’t be scared. The Black Messiah of the title is real-life Sixties revolutionary Fred Hampton (Kaluuya), who was assassinated by the police in 1969. Judas is William O’Neal (LaKeith Stanfield), the apolitical grifter used by th...

From left: Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield in 'Judas and the Black Messiah' Yesterday’s powder keg, still simmering today. TWITTER 2/12/2021 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 ex...

LaKeith Stanfield and Daniel Kaluuya deliver powerhouse performances in the electrifying Black Panther biodrama Judas And The Black Messiah.

Daniel Kaluuya, as Fred Hampton, leads Shaka King's film with magnetism and aplomb Credit: Sundance Dir: Shaka King. Cast: Lakeith Stanfield, Daniel Kaluuya, Dominique Fishback, Jesse Plemons, Ashton Sanders, Robert Longstreet, Martin Sheen. Cert TBC, 126 mins Judas and the Black Messiah is a classic paranoid thriller turned inside-out – a nerve-wrenching conspiracy movie that ends up closing in on one of its conspirators. Shaka King’s film, which has Oscars in its sights, unsnarls the FBI plot to kill Fred Hampton, the deputy chairman of the Black Panther Party, which culminated in an ar...

Judas and the Black Messiah Review: A Spellbinding True Story of Betrayal & Deception Judas and the Black Messiah Review: A Spellbinding True Story of Betrayal & Deception The FBI uses a thief (LaKeith Stanfield) to target Black Panther leader Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya) in Judas and the Black Messiah. Judas and the Black Messiah is a spellbinding true story of betrayal and America's turbulent racial reckoning during the 1960s. The FBI, under the authoritarian rule of J. Edgar Hoover, launched an illegal clandestine program - COINTELPRO, to infiltrate and subvert political organizations dee...