Rodney King
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| Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): April 28, 2017 |
Summary:
His story shook the world and lit LA on fire. Now it comes to life in a powerful one-man show.
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Jun 21, 2020
RogerEbert.com
May 1, 2017
The Guardian
Apr 28, 2017
The performance is austere and challenging, it takes us through the grim events, their aftermath and the long endgame of King’s life, but without the emollient or lenient notes that a Hollywood treatment might attempt. It is a requiem of a sort, and a sombre indication of all that has not yet healed, or been fixed.
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MTV News
Apr 28, 2017
Lee is credited as a director for filming a live performance of Rodney King on an outdoor stage in New York. But Lee mostly seems to have loaned Smith his brand name to get the monologue attention. He doesn't leave a fingerprint on the play, and didn't care about where to put the cameras. The angles make no sense; the edits are clumsy.
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