Movie Review | ‘Django Unchained’
The Black, the White and the Angry
By A. O. SCOTT
“Django Unchained” is pulpy, digressive, jokey, giddily brutal and ferociously profane, but it is also a troubling and important movie about slavery and racism.
Amid the grime, power ballads and surging strings, there is a familiar, reassuring story of oppression, liberation and redemption.
“Django Unchained” is pulpy, digressive, jokey, giddily brutal and ferociously profane, but it is also a troubling and important movie about slavery and racism.
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Mr. Klugman was a character actor who leapt to television stardom as Oscar Madison on “The Odd Couple” and as the crusading pathologist of “Quincy, M.E.”
Mr. Durning was a familiar presence on both stage and screen, with roles including a lonely widower in the film “Tootsie” and Big Daddy in the play “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.”
Patrick Gardner led the Riverside Choral Society in the “Christmas Oratorio,” the third high-profile performance of the work this holiday season.
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