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May 14, 2021 · A vicious slave catcher named Ridgeway (Joel Edgerton) tracks her, but “The Underground Railroad” is more than a mere chase story. The overall arc of Cora’s narrative ebbs and flows through viciously realistic violence and into more dreamlike fantasies and back again.
May 4, 2021 · The real underground railroad, the historical 19th-Century network of people and safe houses that helped slaves escape, becomes a literal, physical trainline carrying people to safety in Colson...
May 13, 2021 · If you choose to watch “The Underground Railroad,” whose roughly 10 hours arrive Friday on Amazon Prime Video, yes, you will see atrocities. But you will also see humanity and resistance and...
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May 13, 2021 · The Underground Railroad curves its way through an alternative history of slavery. Barry Jenkins’s ten-chapter adaptation of Pulitzer Prize-winner Colson Whitehead’s novel is breathtaking storytelling – even its luxurious length means some uneven stretches.
May 17, 2021 · Barry Jenkins’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Underground Railroad, is a brilliant ten-hour odyssey tailored to unsettle, engage, and captivate. Jenkins not only elevates Whitehead’s story, he masterfully bends the Southern Gothic genre to his will.
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May 14, 2021 · The Underground Railroad is available to stream on Amazon Prime Video now. Jenkins’ adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel proves he’s one of the most exciting filmmakers around.
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The Underground Railroad is speculative fiction: instead of being a historical account of the real-life network of routes to help free African-American slaves, it imagines a literal train that swiftly transports Cora (a powerful Thuso Mbedu) from one dystopian vision of white America to another.
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