#13: What’s Love Got to Do with It (1993)
Few performances radiate as much strength as Angela Bassett’s Tina Turner. It’s hard to personify such a strong personality, and perhaps the greatest singer who ever existed. With Laurence Fishburne’s menacing Ike as counterpoint, the film walks through pain into liberation. The choreography, the wigs, the lighting; all pulse with defiance.
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Bassett turns stage moves into self-defense, and by the final scene, when Tina steps alone into the spotlight, freedom has its own rhythm.