King’s achievement is to portray four such sizeable personalities like Sam Cooke and Malcolm X in such a convincing way.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 16, 2025

One Night in Miami is an imagined night of politics and passions, steeped into a bittersweet brew, with performances that will endure and an aftertaste that lingers.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 23, 2024

A relatively weak performance from lead Eli Goree as Ali threatened to derail the film at times (including the beginning), but was largely buoyed by the above standouts and the steadying—if not thematically stifling—dialogue from Aldis Hodge's Jim Brown.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 10, 2024

For people invested in social justice, the questions that [director Regina] King and her characters grapple with continue to persist today.

| Jul 29, 2024

King takes difficult material and lets us slide into the room with the ease of a much more experienced director.

| Feb 23, 2024

One Night in Miami is a remarkable film that approaches a complex, timely topic from many sides, thanks to four protagonists who share similar struggles but approach them from different points of view

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 22, 2023

One Night in Miami doesn't sacrifice the honesty and complexity of being Black in 1960's America.

| Aug 22, 2023

One Night in Miami is a magnificent piece of filmmaking and storytelling. From Regina King's masterful directorial debut to Kemp Powers' thought-provoking, mesmerizing adapted screenplay, it's hard to point out flaws in such a well-made movie.

| Original Score: A- | Jul 24, 2023

It’s difficult for a film based on a play to avoid feeling stagey, especially a film that primarily takes place in one motel room and centers on just four characters. But Regina King directs the film with a true flair.

| May 2, 2023

...the question is not how do we act in a post-racial society, but how do we get to that point? the film posits that there is no singular way Black Americans can move forward and assert their rights and freedoms as equal parts of American society.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 6, 2022

“One Night in Miami” is certainly timely and welcome. It is also one reason why it arrives with high expectations. That it takes four such dynamic, historical leaders and puts them together in one room should have led to more fireworks.

| Oct 11, 2022

It’s an incredible watch – and the ending might just have you reaching for tissues.

| Sep 23, 2022

Regina King’s One Night in Miami is absorbing and entertaining filmmaking that’s worth your time and attention.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 9, 2022

It takes the movie a few minutes to get going, but once it hits its sweet-spot it makes for some pretty riveting viewing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 24, 2022

King’s trust in the material to allow the audience to make their own connections is evident, and in staying out of the way of the script, she allows the performers to make these larger-than-life figures become the real-life men they once were.

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 13, 2022

A truly great example of stage-to-film, bristling with life and running out of time all the same. History written with lightning.

| Mar 11, 2022

Best viewed as a portrait of history rather than a document. King and the talented cast capture what this quartet meant to people, rather than who they were, but when it all comes together so gracefully all you can do is sit back and enjoy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 28, 2022

What becomes evident almost immediately is that King has cast her film so the actors would disappear into their roles, serving the character, not the performer's celebrity.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 17, 2022

To say that One Night in Miami is impressive would be an understatement. This is a film that so easily could have fallen apart if even a single element was not performing to an incredibly high level. Yet every piece of the film is truly inspired.

| Feb 12, 2022

The performances were phenomenal. I'm disappointed by how much this was ignored during the 2020 awards season but hoping that people will continue to find this incredible gem.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 7, 2022