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Oct 18, 2013 · 1. Already being touted as the Best Picture frontrunner, 12 Years a Slave is the finest movie ever made about slavery in the United States. But I don’t mean to damn it with faint praise.
Imperfect but must-see epic drama with major cruelty. Read Common Sense Media's 12 Years a Slave review, age rating, and parents guide.
In the years before the Civil War, Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man from upstate New York, is kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South.
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I think 12 Years a Slave is a masterpiece. It's so full of raw emotion, it's quiet, it's cathartic. It could have easily been a preachy, by-the-numbers slave drama but it hits the perfect balance between realism and Steve McQueen's own style. Totally deserving of its Best Picture win.
A searing and thought-provoking portrait of pre-Civil War American slavery... 12 Years a Slave is an absorbing and divinely crafted film, even if it is a brutal watch. Full Review | Jun 14, 2023
12 Years a Slave — a biopic about a black fiddler in NY who somehow wound up a slave in Louisiana from 1841 until the law rescued him in 1853—is the nearly universally acclaimed front runner for the Best Picture Oscar.
12 Years a Slave is a 2013 biographical drama film directed by Steve McQueen from a screenplay by John Ridley, based on the 1853 slave memoir Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, an African American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. by two conmen in 1841 and sold into slavery.
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