The Hollywood Reporter

‘The Big Cigar’ Review: André Holland’s Apple TV+ Huey Newton Series Can’t Decide Whose Story It’s Telling

A team of white Hollywood producers fabricate a movie to help the Black Panther co-founder escape to Cuba in this six-parter. By Daniel Fienberg Chief Television Critic Whether it’s something like ...
Variety

André Holland Is Stellar as Huey P. Newton, but ‘The Big Cigar’ Never Ignites: TV Review

While much attention is paid to the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Panther Party hasn’t been as closely examined in popular culture. Apple TV+‘s “The Big Cigar” is adapted from Joshuah Bearman’s ...
Time

Black Panthers Meet New Hollywood in the Bold, Thrilling Series The Big Cigar

André Holland and Alessandro Nivola in The Big CigarApple TV+ TV Critic Huey P. Newton would have been skeptical of The Big Cigar, a miniseries that dramatizes his flight from the U.S. to Cuba in 1974 ...
Los Angeles Times

‘The Big Cigar’ dramatizes Black Panther Huey P. Newton’s Hollywood ties and escape to Cuba

André Holland is the best reason to watch “The Big Cigar,” a messy, overstuffed fact-ish miniseries, premiering Friday on Apple TV+, mainly but only partly about the relationship of Black Panther ...
Rolling Stone

‘The Big Cigar’ Is About Black Panthers Founder Huey P. Newton. But Its Real Message Is: ‘Hollywood, Fuck Yeah!’

At one point in the new Apple TV+ miniseries The Big Cigar, Black Panther Party founder Huey P. Newton (André Holland) attends a party and recalls the time he and film producer Bert Schneider ...