An Epic War Film That Complicates ‘Good Versus Evil’
<em>The Woman King</em> is designed to get audiences cheering—but it does so without ignoring the brutal realities of combat.
by David Sims
Sep 15, 2022
3 minutes
The excitement of a historical war film is frequently at odds with the subject. War itself is miserable, complex, and sometimes lacking in heroic purpose. War , especially the Technicolor epics of old, tend to be thrilling affairs, in which stars triumph in the crucible of battle. Gina Prince-Bythewood’s one of the director’s largest-scale works to date, is packed with well-choreographed action carried out by the Agojie, a valiant army of women who defended the African
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