Mondd, testvér!

...Cheadle's Greene feels duty-bound to offer his barbed opinions on all topics without trying to disguise his own shortcomings.

Cheadle gets his teeth into the character, nailing his distinctive drawl and making a fair stab at the contradictory creature underneath: a populist who was also something of a loner; an affectionate boyfriend and serial cheater.

Don Cheadle gives a fascinating performance as a man able to step out of a cell and into a broadcast booth, but not sure where to step next.

Lemmons tells her based-on-real-life tale with enough enthusiasm to partially obscure both the clichés lining her plot's path as well as her cursory address of the roiling social unrest gripping the country.

...a tale of a friendship, as well as a moving evocation of a turbulent era.