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Jan 9, 2015 · Critic Owen Gleiberman gives his verdict. Selma, the stirring and powerful new historical drama about Martin Luther King Jr and his crusade for voting rights, opens with King (David Oyelowo ...
Nov 12, 2014 · Film Review: ‘Selma’. Ava DuVernay's politically astute, psychologically acute MLK biopic makes the civil rights movement seem like only yesterday. A half-century on from Martin Luther King Jr ...
- The Film Is A Wonderful Portrayal of King
- It Shows The True Horrors During The Civil Rights Movement
- The Supporting Cast Is Outstanding
- It Has A Clearly Defined Villain
- It’S A Testament of Progressivism
David Oyelowo has had a remarkable acting career with The Butler, Nightingale, and Queen of Katwe. The actor has been trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and brought his talents to the silver screen when he took on the tumultuous task of playing Martin Luther King Jr. The job might have already been hard but Oyelowo seems to al...
Speaking of 1960s realism, one thing that the film is unapologetic about is its depiction of the Civil Rights Movement. What’s most gruesome and nerve-racking about the film is the number of times African-Americans and Civil Rights supporters fall victim to violence and hate crimes in their endeavor for Civil Rights. The film depicts bombings, beat...
In other films about King, the situation was always hyper-focused on MLK and what he did and who he was. However, they never go into much detail about the supporting characters in and around King’s life, the people he loved, and the people who helped strengthen him. For example, King’s wife Coretta, played by Carmen Ejogo with fervor and passion, g...
Of course, one character that remains just as despicable to this day as he was in the movie, is Governor George Corley Wallace. Tim Roth (The Incredible Hulk) embodies the vicious and racist ideologies that Wallace stood by in the Civil Rights era/Jim Crow South. Wallace tries everything that he can to stop the emergence of the Civil Rights Movemen...
In an effort to maintain equality, King was instrumental in the Civil Rights Movement and without him, it may have never come to pass. This film shows how powerful and moving the movement was and how it shaped generations of people to have better lives. The film shows the struggles that King endured when pushing this movement forward and how, in th...
- Richard Schertzer
Selma, the civil rights film that stars David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King, undoubtedly contains the best and most powerful performance of the year as not nominated for an Oscar. Oyelowo has said ...
Selma: Directed by Ava DuVernay. With David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Jim France, Trinity Simone. A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.
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- Biography, Drama, History
- Ava DuVernay
- 2015-01-09
Selma is a 2014 historical drama film directed by Ava DuVernay and written by Paul Webb. It is based on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches which were initiated and directed by James Bevel [5][6] and led by Martin Luther King Jr., Hosea Williams, and John Lewis. The film stars actors David Oyelowo as King, Tom Wilkinson as ...
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Jan 19, 2015 · Selma chooses to focus on one of the most important fights of King’s life, but it is not an MLK biopic — we meet the good doctor after his “I have a dream” speech and we leave him before ...
