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The Color Purple review: This over-long screen musical of the stage musical of the film of the book has some splendid scenes, writes BRIAN VINER
BRIAN VINER: Danielle Brooks has an Oscar nomination to show for her barnstorming performance in The Color Purple, in which she plays Sofia, as bold and defiant as her friend Celie is timid.
Danielle Brooks has an Oscar nomination to show for her barnstorming performance in The Color Purple, in which she plays Sofia, as bold and defiant as her victimised friend Celie (Fantasia Barrino) is timid. Jamie Childs's Jackdaw is a gloomy thriller set in the industrial north-east where ex-soldier Jack Dawson (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) needs to find his abducted brother, while fighting off a local gangster. On various streaming platforms, including Apple TV, Oliver Pearn's On The Line — not to be confused with a recent film of the same title starring Mel Gibson — is reminiscent of Steven Knight's brilliant Locke (2013) in that the narrative cleverly builds on the back of one person's conversations with disembodied others.
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