The Apollo (2019 film)
The Apollo is a 2019 American documentary directed by Roger Ross Williams. The film explores the history and ongoing influence of the Apollo Theater in Harlem and follows its modern stage productions, including Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me. It world premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 24, 2019. The movie runs 102 minutes, is in English, and is from the United States. The Apollo received strong reviews, won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special in 2020, and was shortlisted for Best Documentary Feature at the 92nd Academy Awards. On Rotten Tomatoes, 21 of 22 critics gave it a positive review (95%). Metacritic gave it a 7.7 out of 10. Entertainment Weekly’s Leah Greenblatt gave it an A−, calling it a well-structured story that features testimonials from Aretha Franklin, Smokey Robinson, Gladys Knight, Jamie Foxx, Pharrell Williams, and others, and praising its balance of history and current relevance.
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