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   Sep 15, 2022 · Led by the battle-scarred General Nanisca (Viola Davis), the women soldiers, their bodies oiled to a high gleam, emerge like hallucinations that Prince-Bythewood makes palpably real. Suddenly,...

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3. www.rogerebert.com › reviews › the-woman-king-movieThe Woman King movie review & film summary (2022) - Roger Ebert

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   Sep 16, 2022 · Thrilling and enrapturing, emotionally beautiful and spiritually buoyant, “The Woman King” isn’t just an uplifting battle cry. It’s the movie Prince-Bythewood has been building toward throughout her entire career. And she doesn’t miss.

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5. www.newyorker.com › culture › cultural-commentSisterhood and Slavery in “The Woman King” - The New Yorker

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   Sep 16, 2022 · “The Woman King” has been billed as a “powerful true story.” But one wonders what Kossola and Hurston—one of America’s first Black woman filmmakers—would make of its narrative.

6. www.nytimes.com › 2022/09/08 › movies‘The Woman King’ and Intimate Moments Amid Epic Action

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   Sep 8, 2022 · Led by Viola Davis as General Nanisca, the women live in their own corner of the palace of King Ghezo (John Boyega) in a man-free enclave as they hone their combat skills. Into this environment...

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7. www.bbc.com › culture › articleThe Woman King review: 'A spectacular, action-filled epic' - BBC

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   Sep 10, 2022 · But The Woman King, without Marvel superpowers, has a more serious tone and connection to history. What the films do share is a reverence for African culture.

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   Is the woman King a good movie?

   • The Woman King begins as portraiture and then surrenders to melodrama when faced with the challenges of translating history for the screen and constructing a coherent geopolitical thread. – Lovia Gyarkye, Hollywood Reporter The Woman King is an 8/10 for entertainment value, and 4/10 for how it deals with history. – Reuben Baron, Looper.com

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   Is the woman King a true story?

   • Their canvases are again as expansive as their desires. Certainly one of the most expansive of these canvases is “The Woman King,” a drama about the real women soldiers of the precolonial Kingdom of Dahomey in West Africa.

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   Who is 'the woman King' director Gina Prince-Bythewood?

   • Viola Davis, John Boyega and Lashana Lynch lead The Woman King's impressive cast, but the film's real star is its director, Gina Prince-Bythewood, who doesn't make a wrong move, writes Caryn James.

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   What is the theme of the woman King?

   • The Woman King is about strength and will, about independence and abolishing slavery, themes that Dana Stevens' screenplay announces too bluntly at times. "We are the blade of freedom," Nanisca yells, inspiring her troops into one more battle. But Prince-Bythewood never lets social themes get in the way of crowd-pleasing action.

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   What is the theme of 'the woman King' by Prince-Bythewood?

   • The women are their own greatest weapons, and among everything else it addresses, “The Woman King” is about strong, dynamic Black women, their souls, minds and bodies. Prince-Bythewood frames these warriors, with their gradations of skin tones, lovingly and attentively. (The cinematographer is Polly Morgan.)

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   What is the story of the woman King about?

   • Photograph courtesy Sony Pictures “The Woman King,” an exhilarating saga set on the battlefields of nineteenth-century West Africa, opens with a scene of liberation. Dahomey, a scrappy kingdom menaced by the slave trade, has dispatched its bravest soldiers to rescue a group of captive subjects, who are at risk of being sold to the rival Oyo Empire.

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   Sep 10, 2022 · Critics say that despite a few minor quibbles with the script, Gina Prince-Bythewood's historical epic offers an awards-worthy performance from Davis, a breakout star in Thuso Mbedu, and...