The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021)
"Her voice would not be silenced."
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👍 63%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 54%
(RT: 56%, MC: 52) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Is The United States vs. Billie Holiday good?
It's divisive. 63% audience score, estimated from 323 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 54%.
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Overview
Billie Holiday spent much of her career being adored by fans. In the 1940s, the government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to racialize the war on drugs, ultimately aiming to stop her from singing her controversial ballad, "Strange Fruit." Wikipedia ↗
