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A Georgia slave (’s Keke Palmer) flees her plantation to discover it’s 1973 for everyone else in writer/director Krystin Ver Linden’s debut feature, a nutty mash-up of Shyamalan, Blaxploitation and Lewis Carroll that is best swallowed in one magnanimous gulp. That the freshly emancipated Alice takes scarcely a day to acclimatise to her surroundings, absorb a century of history and transform herself into a gun-toting Coffy clone is just the beginning of its improbabilities. As a galvanic exercise in avenging wish-fulfilment, though, it works a treat.
