Weekend Film Reviews
12 Years A Slave
Movie audiences have never been presented with anything quite like the intertwined beauty and savagery of 12 Years A Slave...
By Joe Morgenstern • • 3m Listen12 Years A Slave is a landmark event, and it seems certain to transcend the movie realm and become a new reference point of contemporary culture – a defining vision of what slavery looked like, and felt like, in the United States before the Civil War.
Banner image: Chiwetel Ejiofor and Michael Fassbender in
12 Years A Slave