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By Chris Nashawaty (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 17 Dec 2014

DuVernay has done a great service with Selma…

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By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Dec 2014

What will make the film essential for future generations isn't mere flashpoint topicality, but the way it aligns an old struggle with a current one…

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By Rex Reed (1,506) for Observer (1,042) on 17 Dec 2014

As vital as it is, racial strife is a subject that cries out for a more volatile treatment than this…

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By David Denby (676) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 15 Dec 2014

This is cinema, more rhetorical, spectacular, and stirring than cable-TV drama: again and again, DuVernay’s camera (Bradford Young did the…

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By Tim Robey (1,578) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 08 Dec 2014

David Oyelowo has never given a better performance. He seems to penetrate into King’s soul and camps out there for two hours…

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By Steve Rose (110) for The Guardian (2,969) on 08 Dec 2014

Unimpeachably important, ambitious in its scope and handsomely presented, it has all the hallmarks of a trophy winner, for better and worse…

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By Charlie Schmidlin (51) for The Playlist (3,871) on 12 Nov 2014

Selma is vital correspondence, filmmaking lived on the streets where brutal facts were ignored then reported, and now snatched back from history…

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By James Rocchi (1,075) for TheWrap (3,203) on 12 Nov 2014

Selma is one of the best American films of the year — and indeed perhaps the best — precisely because it does not simply show what Dr…

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By Gregory Ellwood (229) for Hitfix (861) on 12 Nov 2014

In a year of remarkable performances, Oyelowo is simply magnificent as Dr. King…

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By Scott Foundas (913) for Variety (12,700) on 12 Nov 2014

DuVernay’s razor-sharp portrait of the Civil Rights movement — and Dr…

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By Stephen Farber (295) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 12 Nov 2014

Intelligently written, vividly shot, tightly edited, sharply acted, the film represents a rare example of craftsmanship working to produce…

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