One Night in Miami

This is a powerful film that captures a tipping point in America.

Cassius Clay, Jim Brown, Sam Cooke, and Malcolm X were all together in a motel room in Miami in 1964, and “One Night in Miami” imagines the things they said and the plans they shared.

The film is based on a play, so it has a compelling intimacy, but it still feels like a film. When stage material is translated to the screen, you can get something that doesn’t belong in either medium. That’s not the case here, and that’s a credit to director Regina King. Between this and “Watchmen,” King is on a hell of a run.

Will someone please make Aldis Hodge a bigger star? Hodge, who plays Jim Brown in the film, is always a compelling performer. Even in something trivial, like the silly TNT show “Leverage,” he owns the screen.