The thing that drove me crazy about the film was the director's odd framing of the close-ups in the Oval Office. I thought the film was good, not great, but good enough to get the point across, unfortunately the script needed to paint LBJ as the bad guy (though not as big a racial a-hole as Wallace) to create dramatic conflict for the story it was trying to convey. Left me with a 'eh' feeling overall on that count, but Oyelowo's performance as MLK, Jr. was solid, and the actress cast as Coretta really looked like how the younger Coretta probably did in the mid-1960s.
I give it 2.75 stars, or a grade of B-.
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