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12 Years A Slave - Steve Mcqueen'S Masterful Adaptation of Solomon Northup'S 1853 Memoir Is Simply A
12 Years A Slave - Steve Mcqueen'S Masterful Adaptation of Solomon Northup'S 1853 Memoir Is Simply A
From the dusty, dying towns of "Nebraska" to the rooftop Roman parties in "The Great Beauty" to the sleek future Los Angeles of "Her," 2013 has been a trip. But has it been a great year? Negativity reached a fever pitch in the summer when Steven Spielberg lamented Hollywood's risk-adverse, finance-driven blockbusterism. The grim, humorless "Man of Steel" and its careless backdrop of mass destruction was a low point: the epitome of everything bad about movies today. Yet ambitious films gathered in number as the year went on, and many began calling 2013 a historically excellent year for film, after all. Here are one critic's top picks of the year, all of them reasons why 2013 was a good year for the big screen: 12 Years a Slave - Steve McQueen's masterful adaptation of Solomon Northup's 1853 memoir is simply a powerhouse. McQueen, I suspect, will never make a comedy; his three movies (Shame,Hunger) reveal him a harsh storyteller, drawn down dark rabbit holes. But his lack of sentimentality gives 12 Years a Slave its clarity: a long overdue correction to cinema's reluctant treatment of slavery. As Northup, Chiwetel Ejiofor's soulful eyes carry us through a nightmare odyssey of America's past.
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