Review of 12 Years a Slave (2013) by Michael Phillips for Chicago Tribune — 16 Oct 2013
While this is very much a McQueen picture, with visual flourishes and motifs unmistakably his, the historical urgency and staggering injustice of the events keep McQueen and company utterly honest in their approach and in their collective act of imagining Solomon Northup's odyssey to hell and back.
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This review of 12 Years a Slave (2013) was written by Michael Phillips and published by Chicago Tribune on 16 Oct 2013.
12 Years a Slave has generally received very positive reviews.
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