Directed by Ava Duvernay
Screenplay by Paul Webb
Starring David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tom Wilkinson, Tim Roth, Oprah Winfrey and more stars than there are in heaven
Selma is an important movie. If you didn’t know it going in, you figured it right quick, and kept figuring it, because instead of being the joke fest you imagined[1], they play it straight as the soberest teetotaler. Which is a seriously wasted opportunity because, if you ask me, the jokes practically write themselves. All you have to do is turn on the spigot and here they come.
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