“The Woman King” is already a triumph in many ways ... Even the most sympathetic male character, the slave trader Malik who romantically desires Nawi, naively seeks to symbolically disempower ...

The men also fare well in “The Woman King.” In an understated turn, Boyega establishes his might as King Ghezo, but knows when to cede the limelight to Davis. Jordan Bolger impresses as Malik ...

“The Woman King” has stormed into theaters ... and Jordan Bolger plays his friend Malik, whose mother was Dahomey and whose father was Brazilian. Adrienne Warren portrays Ode, and Masali ...

Mayor Malik Evans held a second roundtable on Monday, bringing local leaders, organizations, and businesses together to ...

“The Woman King,” a film starring and executive produced ... mixed-race sailor named Malik (Jordan Bolger). The son of a slave and a slave trader, Malik has deep reservations about slavery ...

Although Malik’s racial identity — and the position ... feature traditional song and dance — in this way, “The Woman King” brings to the big screen an exuberant celebration of West ...

Malik and Nawi’s scenes carry neither the ... also attempts to literalize the guilt and ancestral pain that The Woman King’s characters carry with them through a twist that, at first, seems ...

Malik, who likely comes from Brazil ... It’s hard not to see uncomfortable echoes of this propaganda in “The Woman King.” Nyong’o never mentions “The Woman King.” ...

Malik warns Nawi of an impending attack by ... Will anyone be named the Woman King? Will there be incredible performances along the way? I can’t get into spoilers for those first two questions ...

“All I ever knew of Africans was slaves,” says Malik (Jordan Bolger) in one scene in The Woman King. He is a Portuguese-African man, and son of a woman stolen from her country; during a quiet ...