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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom movie review: Chadwick Boseman is breathtaking in his final film, there’s no way he won’t win an Oscar
4 years ago

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom movie review: Chadwick Boseman is breathtaking in his final film, there’s no way he won’t win an Oscar

Hindustan Times  

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Director - George C Wolfe Cast - Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman, Colman Domingo, Glynn Turman, Michael Potts, Jeremy Shamos Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom movie review: Chadwick Boseman as Levee, in a still from the new Netflix film. The conversations flow easily in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, like water along a summertime stream. To make matters slightly …

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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom review: Chadwick Boseman’s last and finest performance
4 years ago

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom review: Chadwick Boseman’s last and finest performance

The Independent  

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. 15, 94 mins When Chadwick Boseman rages against an unjust God, …

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Why 'Ma Rainey' on Netflix changed the play's ending
4 years ago

Why 'Ma Rainey' on Netflix changed the play's ending

LA Times  

The following story contains spoilers from the movie “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” now streaming on Netflix. The final frames of Netflix’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” adapted from two-time Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson’s 1982 play, show a dozen or so white men performing in a recording studio. All 10 are set to be adapted for the screen — an endeavor …

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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Movie Review: Chadwick Boseman's Swan Song is Perhaps His Finest Gift
4 years, 1 month ago

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Movie Review: Chadwick Boseman's Swan Song is Perhaps His Finest Gift

News 18  

Ma Raineys Black Bottom Cast: Chadwick Boseman, Viola Davis, Glynn Turman DIrector: George C Wolfe Chadwick Boseman surges onto the screen as fast-talking trumpeter Levee in Ma Raineys Black Bottom like a man on an electrified tightrope — balancing precariously between hope and cynicism, humor and sadness, joy and pain, and love and hate. Unlike with some of Bosemans other …

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Review: ‘Ma Rainey’ is Boseman’s final, perhaps finest gift
4 years, 1 month ago

Review: ‘Ma Rainey’ is Boseman’s final, perhaps finest gift

Associated Press  

Chadwick Boseman surges onto the screen as fast-talking trumpeter Levee in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” like a man on an electrified tightrope -- balancing precariously between hope and cynicism, humor and sadness, joy and pain, and love and hate. A historical note: Ma Rainey, who died in 1939, was a groundbreaking Black singer from Georgia known as “Mother of the …

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Review: In ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,’ Chadwick Boseman gives his final and finest performance
4 years, 1 month ago

Review: In ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,’ Chadwick Boseman gives his final and finest performance

LA Times  

The Times is committed to reviewing theatrical film releases during the COVID-19 pandemic. It seems an appropriate question to ask of “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” the gale-force whirlwind of a film adapted from August Wilson’s 1982 play. But her ambitious trumpet player, Levee, wants to dispense with that “old jug-band music” and tap into a newer, jazzier sound, one far …

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Netflix previews ‘Ma Rainey’ and Boseman’s final performance
4 years, 2 months ago

Netflix previews ‘Ma Rainey’ and Boseman’s final performance

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Netflix on Monday previewed George C. Wolfe’s August Wilson adaptation “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” showcasing Chadwick Boseman’s final performance opposite Viola Davis’ powerhouse blues singer. The film, shot last year, was already one of the year’s most anticipated, coming as the next chapter in Denzel Washington’s ongoing project to turn Wilson’s plays into films, following 2016’s Oscar-winning …

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Trailer of Chadwick Boseman's Final Film Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Released, Watch Here
4 years, 2 months ago

Trailer of Chadwick Boseman's Final Film Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Released, Watch Here

News 18  

Netflix on Monday previewed George C. Wolfe’s August Wilson adaptation Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, showcasing Chadwick Boseman’s final performance opposite Viola Davis’ powerhouse blues singer. But since the unexpected death in August of 43-year-old Boseman from colon cancer, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom" has taken on a elegiac aura. Netflix, which will debut it Dec. 18 on the streaming service, is …

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