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'The Birth of a Nation' review: Nate Parker's powerful, problematic film about Nat Turner

Nate Parker's debut feature, "The Birth of a Nation," owes a great deal of its storytelling, its brute force and its blood-boiling injustice to Mel Gibson's "Braveheart." "I love the comparison," Parker told Alex Billington of firstshowing.net, after Parker's Sundance Film Festival triumph in January....

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13:56 on October 4 2016

'The Birth of a Nation' review: Nate Parker's powerful, problematic film about Nat Turner

Chicago Tribune — Nate Parker's debut feature, "The Birth of a Nation," owes a great deal of its storytelling, its brute force and its blood-boiling injustice to Mel Gibson's "Braveheart."... more info

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