Billie Holiday, Lee Daniels is trying his hand at horror ... When the battle happens [toward the end of the movie] and she's speaking in tongues [the act of communicating in an unknown language ...

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Billie Holiday was a musical revolutionary ... it arrives out of the blue in an emotionally jarring sequence. Daniels continually presents Holiday as a battered woman through the male gaze ...