Netflix's Blood Brothers: Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali is a telling in portrait of a complicated friendship

Variety

"Blood Brothers underscores the shifting demands placed on leaders," says Lisa Kennedy of the documentary. "They can be pinned like butterflies to whatever ideology resonates for those they inspired. There was defiant Ali. There was ailing Ali. There was incendiary Malcolm X and there was reflective Malcolm X." ALSO: The only flaw is how little time the documentary devotes to the aftermath of their tragic rift.