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The Birth of a Nation (2016)
In the summer of 1831, Nat Turner’s slave insurrection ripped through Southampton County, Virginia, leaving scores of white men, women, and children dead. Nat orchestrates an uprising in the hopes of leading his people to freedom after witnessing countless atrocities, against himself and his fellow slaves.
21 February 1969, San Francisco, California, USA
18 March 1982, Kingston upon Thames, England, UK
11 January 1985, Los Angeles County, California, USA
22 November 2002, Lakeland, Florida, USA
April 23, 2017
Nate Parker might well be the next big thing... if he's ever given the chance to work in Hollywood again.
February 17, 2017
A revenge maybe just, but unidirectional, in the form of a movie. [Full review in Spanish]
October 07, 2016
If you forgive him enough to see it, The Birth of a Nation offers a troubling tangle of the personal and historical. But above all else it's commercial, an entertainment of purpose and some power.
February 13, 2017
A movie made of patches, fragments of other films about southern black slaves, cruel torture scenes, endless humiliations, outraged adolescents and animalized children. [Full review in Spanish]
October 07, 2016
The highly charged arena into which this film about America's bloodiest slave revolt arrives gives it a cachet that, in artistic if not sociological terms, it does not really merit.
October 10, 2016
A seriously damaged and inadequate movie ... its defects reveal traits of character-arrogance, vanity, and self-importance-that exert an unfortunately strong influence on Parker's directorial choices.
October 07, 2016
What if the way to honor Nat Turner is to pay attention to artists who aren't shackled by the Academy's limited definition of what a black Best Picture winner is allowed to discuss?
October 07, 2016
The Birth of a Nation is a flawed but fairly compelling chapter of the American story that powerfully resonates with how that story is playing out today.
February 19, 2017
Jam-packed with debatable arguments, themes, and imagery, The Birth Of A Nation is sure to stir up an emotion - but in an overloaded fashion.
January 20, 2017
If you can manage it, you will see that the film is rich with thought-provoking imagery.
October 17, 2016
Parker's film is at its best when he presents his harrowing story straightforwardly.
February 16, 2017
Dramatically shocking, it resorts to a bloody hyperrealism that can be understood as documentary rigor but also as an effective and simplistic manipulative mechanism. [Full review in Spanish]
