Best Films of 2020
#4 – One Night in Miami…
In a year of strong ensemble casts, none impressed me more than the quartet at the center of Regina King’s One Night in Miami….
King directs a script by Kemp Powers, based on his own play, about an encounter between four legendary Black icons: Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir), Cassius Clay (Eli Goree), Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge), and Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr.). The four men alternately clash and harmonize about their roles and responsibilities in a society that worships them but would never invite them in for dinner.