Elesin Oba: The King's Horseman
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): November 4, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Screen DailyWendy IdeNov 10, 2022
The film works on multiple levels. It’s an indictment of colonial brute force; a critique of masculine entitlement, an observation of the uneasy coexistence between tradition and modernity. But mostly, it’s a rich, engrossing and distinctive approach to African storytelling. Read full review
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Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonNov 10, 2022
In a film of grand acting, flamboyant color, vaulting ambition and global conflict, the more slippery gestures contain much meaning. Read full review
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Movie NationRoger MooreJan 19, 2023
The drama, with characters trying to avert a tragedy under tragic circumstances, is cleverly-constructed, with its contrivances nicely obscured by the glorious sense of place and time seen, in hindsight, as at best another “grey area” moment in the mixed bag of late era colonialism, at worst as another crippling blow dealt to a culture destined to barely survive the experience. Read full review
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