What’s My Name: Muhammad AliSky Atlantic★★★★☆The PlanetsBBC Two★★★★☆You wonder how Muhammad Ali would have gone down if Twitter had been around during the boxer’s prime. That preposterous braggadocio, the trash-talking of opponents, those outrageous racial statements — the reaction would have been, well, complicated to say the least. The thought occurred during What’s My Name: Muhammad Ali, Antoine Fuqua’s terrific two-parter, which was defined by having no reverential narrator or talking heads, but simply old footage of Ali in full flow, shooting his mouth off in a torrent of quickfire ripostes and rhyming metaphor. Muhammad Ali after knocking out Sonny Liston in Maine in 1965 GETTY IMAGESSuch was the 100-watt charisma of Ali that you could just wallow in clips of him for hours and be richly entertained. This film, stuffed to the ropes with…

Source: The Times June 11, 2019 23:09 UTC