While awards season may be getting off to a slow, COVID-delayed start, the main critics groups in New York and L.A. haven't waited to bestow their accolades. But, lacking an overwhelming consensus, they may not have as much impact as they have had in the past.

Regina King makes her feature directing debut with Amazon's adaptation of the stage hit inspired by the 1964 encounter of four giants of sports, music and activism with conflicting perspectives on the Black struggle.