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‘40 Acres’ Review: Danielle Deadwyler Leads With Strength in Subversive Siege Thriller
The 'Till' star shines as a mother who risks mutiny protecting her family farm after a civil war in '40 Acres,' R.T. Thorne’s dystopian action movie.
Given the kind of introduction usually reserved for the likes of Clint Eastwood or Bruce Willis as a camera runs up her back, only to reveal her face after plunging a knife into an intruder on her property, it just hits differently when a Black woman is presented with such power, and though R.T. Thorne ’s dynamic siege thriller has some familiar moves, it is full of fresh ideas. Although ragtag militias have been reported to ambush farms, that outside threat produces less fear than dissent from within after the family, including Hailey‘s partner Galen (Michael Greyeyes), dispatches such a group within the film’s opening minutes. A tried-and-true conflict emerges when Emmanuel takes in a stray named Dawn (Milcania Diaz-Rojas), who arrives wounded outside the gates of the family farm and remains hidden from his mother as he tries to nurse her back to health.
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