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Cinemablend · Mar 4

The Woman King movie review: it may be wish-fulfilment but it’s also a dream

A stonking yet subtle performance from Viola Davis leads an outstanding cast in this groundbreaking film

Evening Standard · Oct 7, 2022

The Woman King review: ferocious warrior tale is a vibrant celebration of Black womanhood in all its glory

Viola Davis plays the (fictionalised) leader of the (real-life) Agojie, an elite unit of all-female warriors active in the historical kingdom of Dahomey

The Independent UK · Oct 5, 2022

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Review: Viola Davis adds another jewel to her crown in a rousing 'Woman King'

With her rousing new action-drama, "The Woman King," director Gina Prince-Bythewood suggests that, in at least one crucial respect, the West African kingdom of Dahomey was more ahead of its time than that starry imperialist empire called Hollywood. An early 19th-century epic awash in militaristic might and colonial oppression, the…

Los Angeles Times · Sep 16, 2022

‘The Woman King’: Viola Davis, co-stars put ordinary war movie in a class by itself

The great actor displays her ferocious side as a West African general leading a unit of fighting women.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 14, 2022

'Woman King,' Viola Davis and the culmination of a struggle

When Viola Davis, sculpted and hardened from months of training, first stood in the full garb of the Agojie warrior women, with her bare feet in the African sand, it was the culmination of not just the years-long push to make “The Woman King,” but of a lifelong battle

The Independent UK · Sep 13, 2022

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