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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 06 Dec 2022

Unfortunately, by the time the movie gets around to the parts that might have dazzled us, Emancipation already lost its audience…

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By Jesse Hassenger (800) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 05 Dec 2022

The movie isn’t quite evocative enough to work as effective minimalism…

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By K. Austin Collins (343) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 05 Dec 2022

Emancipation is not better off for laying any claim to the actual man that it purports to be about…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 05 Dec 2022

Emancipation, Antoine Fuqua’s well-meaning and graphic depiction of an enslaved man who escapes in search of Lincoln’s army and freedom…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 02 Dec 2022

[Smith's] conviction carries Emancipation a long way, elevating what is essentially a B movie to the realm of something better than its outsize…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for The New York Times (9,847) on 02 Dec 2022

Part of this movie’s power comes from its insistence that you look at the near-unbearable, that you confront slavery as a crime against humanity…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 02 Dec 2022

Emancipation is never dull, but it’s rarely without its box office instincts for falsification front and center, alongside its star…

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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 02 Dec 2022

Emancipation is tonally discordant, attempting to merge serious historical drama with the silly dynamics of an action thriller…

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By Robert Daniels (336) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 02 Dec 2022

Emancipation becomes an exhaustive, vicious, and stylistically overcooked recounting of a man whose very visage led the abolitionist charge…

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By Unclewillard (169) on 02 Dec 2022

I'm just not going to watch this. It may be a fine film. Will Smith, despite his Oscar drama, may give a phenomenal performance…

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By Jake Coyle (526) for The Associated Press (882) on 01 Dec 2022

Fuqua’s film is often harrowing and gripping but also less nuanced and too narrowly confined in genre conventions than its real-life protagonist…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 01 Dec 2022

Directed by Antoine Fuqua with an occasionally puzzling combination of restraint and stylization, Emancipation turns a potent image into a…

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By Robbie Collin (1,612) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 30 Nov 2022

Emancipation is a finely crafted, unflinching pursuit thriller about a slave seizing his freedom in 1860s Louisiana, and the first notable…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 30 Nov 2022

Anchored by an ultra-focused and unusually low-key Will Smith as Peter, Emancipation can be an intense and at times almost unbearable thing…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 30 Nov 2022

This is a strong, fierce, heartfelt movie…

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By Johnny Oleksinski (478) for New York Post (6,650) on 30 Nov 2022

Emancipation, which is an otherwise well-tread period drama about the horrors of slavery, features more of Smith’s rich emotionality and…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 30 Nov 2022

Despite the undeniable importance of this story and the obvious passion of those involved in telling it, Emancipation is more than anything…

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By John Nugent (191) for Empire (3,446) on 30 Nov 2022

Emancipation can’t avoid the well-trodden hallmarks of slavery stories, nor offer a particularly fresh perspective on them…

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By Carlos Aguilar (278) for TheWrap (3,203) on 30 Nov 2022

As stark corroboration that this country was built on hatred and death, Emancipation successfully rattles you, but it can hardly be described…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for IndieWire (3,631) on 30 Nov 2022

American movie-watchers are used to consuming their history lessons with a heavy layer of artificial butter on top, but William N…

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