Emancipation
Apple TV+ | Release Date: December 2, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
53
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Mixed or average reviews based on 40 Critic Reviews
Positive:
13
Mixed:
23
Negative:
4
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38
ObserverOliver JonesDec 7, 2022
The movie exists between prestige and genre (or two genres, really, as it morphs in its final third from an escaped fugitive picture to a war movie), yet it can’t quite grasp either the elevated emotion of prestige or the snap of the genre. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeOdie HendersonDec 7, 2022
Had “Emancipation” shaken off its Oscar-baiting “slave movie” shackles and instead gone full-tilt into a vengeance-laden “freedom movie,” it might have worked. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comRobert DanielsDec 2, 2022
Emancipation becomes an exhaustive, vicious, and stylistically overcooked recounting of a man whose very visage led the abolitionist charge. Emancipation is a hollow piece of genre filmmaking that rarely answers, "Why this story and why now?" Read full review
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San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleDec 6, 2022
Unfortunately, by the time the movie gets around to the parts that might have dazzled us, Emancipation already lost its audience. Read full review
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