“Selma” was a good but hardly great movie. The fact that it received an Oscar nomination for Best Picture seems more a nod to the weight of the historical subject it tackled — the civil rights struggle that brought about the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — rather than the actual aesthetic merits of how they depicted it.
Selma
Selma
Selma
“Selma” was a good but hardly great movie. The fact that it received an Oscar nomination for Best Picture seems more a nod to the weight of the historical subject it tackled — the civil rights struggle that brought about the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — rather than the actual aesthetic merits of how they depicted it.