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

by Jocelyn Noveck
| November 27, 2020 12:06 AM

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.

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