Storyline
"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately led to the signing of the Civil Rights Act.
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Giovanni Ribisi, Wendell Pierce, Common, Tim Roth, David Dwyer, Dylan Baker, Tom Wilkinson, Martin Sheen, Jeremy Strong, Stephen Root, Niecy Nash, Kent Faulcon, Omar J. Dorsey, Jody Thompson, David Oyelowo, E. Roger Mitchell, Alessandro Nivola, Cuba Gooding Jr., Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Oprah Winfrey, Carmen Ejogo, Lorraine Toussaint, Charles Black, Henry G. Sanders, Colman Domingo, Tessa Thompson, André Holland, Lakeith Stanfield, Stephan James, Ledisi Anibade Young, Corey Reynolds, Charity Jordan, Trai Byers, Stan Houston, Nigel Thatch, Tara Ochs, Gregory Chandler Maness, Haviland Stillwell
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Reviews
100
Selma is one of the best American films of the year — and indeed perhaps the best — precisely because it does not simply show what Dr. King did for America in his day; it also wonders explicitly what we have left undone for America in ours.
100
DuVernay’s razor-sharp portrait of the Civil Rights movement — and Dr. King himself — at a critical crossroads is as politically astute as it is psychologically acute, giving us a human-scale King whose indomitable public face belies currents of weariness and self-doubt.
100
Selma is vital correspondence, filmmaking lived on the streets where brutal facts were ignored then reported, and now snatched back from history to sustain a spirit few films can or will possess. It is stunning humanistic cinema on a mainstream scale... It has inventiveness, urgency, humor, and most of all emotion that draws effortless parallels rather than leaving its lesson up on the screen.
100
David Oyelowo has never given a better performance. He seems to penetrate into King’s soul and camps out there for two hours. He’s tremendous, of course, when electrifying his congregation at the podium, but a sense of fatigue is even more paramount.
91
In a year of remarkable performances, Oyelowo is simply magnificent as Dr. King.
