12 Years a Slave (dir. Steve McQueen).

Everything on screen in 12 Years a Slave truly represents a touchingly, utterly cinematic piece of art. […] McQueen deftly portrays hundreds of years of violence, racism, and slavery in two hours of screen time. It’s an unflinching film about one man's "unmistakable desire for freedom“ as a kind of a nightmare on telling the brutal struggles of American freedom. I find it a little more than embarrassing that such a universal, identifiable film about American slavery was made by and stars Brits.

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