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Review of by David Denby for The New Yorker — 15 Dec 2014

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This is cinema, more rhetorical, spectacular, and stirring than cable-TV drama: again and again, DuVernay’s camera (Bradford Young did the cinematography) tracks behind characters as they march, or gentles toward them as they approach, receiving them with a friendly hand.

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This review of Salma (2014) was written by and published by The New Yorker on 15 Dec 2014.

Salma has generally received very positive reviews.

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