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Set against the antebellum South, this story follows Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher, whose financially strained owner, Samuel Turner, accepts an offer to use Nat's preaching to subdue unruly slaves. After witnessing countless atrocities against fellow slaves, Nat devises a plan to lead his people to freedom.
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Based on 22 The Birth of a Nation Cinema reviews, The Birth of a Nation gets an average Cinema review score of 70. The score for all versions is 70 based on a total of 22 reviews.
4/4
nypost.comCinema
Nat Turner, a slave in 1831 Virginia, spends his life looking away. Looking away from passersby who randomly harass him, looking away from the white enslaver who casually chisel...
2734d ago100/100
www.usatoday.comCinema
With not-so-civil disobedience, Nat Turner forcefully fought for his people’s freedom more than 100 years before there was such a thing as a civil rights movement.
2734d ago3.5/4
www.rollingstone.comCinema
Writer-actor-star Nate Parker's controversial recreation of Nat Turner's 1831 slave uprising couldn't be more pertinent – or more powerful
2734d agoB+/A+
www.ew.comCinema
Nate Parker’s lightning-rod account of slave-turned-revolutionary Nat Turner arrives in the opposite of a vacuum: The long path to release has been so clouded by expectation, co...
2734d agoB/A+
www.avclub.comCinema
The Birth Of A Nation is a powerful, imperfect history lesson.
2734d ago80/100
variety.comCinema
Debuting writer-director Nate Parker stars in this searingly impressive account of the Nat Turner slave rebellion.
2734d agoB/A+
thefilmstage.comCinema
In ending on a single, hopeful transition towards progress, Nate Parker’s debut is fiery cry to end the systemic injustice that still plagues our country and beyond.
2734d ago75/100
www.seattletimes.comCinema
It’s part of the strength of Parker’s film that the current controversy doesn’t entirely overshadow its impact — and that Birth of a Nation immediately becomes part of another c...
2734d ago3.5/5
www.austinchronicle.comCinema
There are images, however, in The Birth of a Nation that are so potent, disturbing, and visually precise that they will be seared into my memory for life.
2734d ago70/100
www.hollywoodreporter.comCinema
Nate Parker directs and stars in a biopic of Nat Turner, who led an early 19th century slave revolt.
2734d ago70/100
www.nytimes.comCinema
The movie, uneven as it is, has terrific momentum and passages of concentrated visual beauty. The acting is strong even when the script wanders into thickets of rhetoric and mys...
2734d ago69/100
www.theverge.comCinema
Nate Parker's awards-bait spectacle is familiar, but necessary.
2734d ago65/100
www.thewrap.comCinema
Though controversy swirls around its director-star, this flawed, fiery depiction of Nat Turner-led slave insurrection remains a notable achievement.
2734d ago63/100
www.washingtonpost.comCinema
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.
2734d ago2.5/4
www.chicagotribune.comCinema
Nate Parker's powerful, problematic film about Nat Turner.
2734d ago60/100
time.comCinema
Should this Birth of a Nation exist? Should people see it? Is it O.K. if people respond to it? If we care at all about who, beyond white guys, ought to be making movies in Ameri...
2734d ago60/100
www.villagevoice.comCinema
Turner absolves the man that nobody else will, and the writer/director/actor doesn't bother to dramatize why. That's how tricky and personal forgiveness is — even Nate Parker ca...
2734d ago3/5
www.theguardian.comCinema
With a provocative title and a timely focus on America’s history of slavery, this is Sundance’s most talked-about film. If only it were less heavy-handed.
2734d ago60/100
www.wsj.comCinema
Nate Parker directs and stars in a film, surrounded by controversy, about Nat Turner and his 1831 rebellion.
2734d ago2/4
www.slantmagazine.comCinema
Nate Parker strains to control the strange and stirring complications of his subject’s visionary apocalypticism.
2734d ago2/4
www.rogerebert.comCinema
Nate Parker's “The Birth of a Nation,” a retelling of the 1831 slave rebellion led by Nat Turner, could not be more timely.
2734d ago2.5/5
wegotthiscovered.comCinema
The Birth Of A Nation is not without inherent power, but Parker struggles to evoke anything besides surface tellings of textbook atrocities.
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