Review of Amistad (1997) by Jonathan Rosenbaum for Chicago Reader — 17 Apr 1999
There's some excellent comedy early on involving the mutual incomprehension of Africans and Americans, though this eventually gives way to solemn, ethnocentric mush about one African's reading of the story of Jesus, demonstrating as usual that sustained subtlety is hardly Spielberg's forte.
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This review of Amistad (1997) was written by Jonathan Rosenbaum and published by Chicago Reader on 17 Apr 1999.
Amistad has generally received positive reviews.
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