Director Steven Soderbergh’s film for Netflix, High Flying Bird (2019), is a collaboration between Soderbergh, playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney (writer of Moonlight) and actor Andre Holland (also of Moonlight and The Knick) who plays an agent trying to make some moves during an NBA lockout where the salaries of young black players are drying up while the predominately white owners hold out for network deals. A fast talking drama that merges Soderbergh’s interest in economics and negotiation (The Girlfriend Experience) with the pleasurable hum of an Ocean’s Eleven heist movie. Holland is terrific as is Zazie Beetz, Sonja Sohn and of course, the great Bill Duke. Recommended.
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