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‘Antebellum’ Review: Janelle Monáe thriller offers striking imagery but a strained conclusion

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Antebellum (★★☆☆☆), the lushly photographed debut feature by filmmaking team Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz spends its opening act driving home the torturous treatment inflicted on the Black women and men working a cotton plantation under cruel overseer Captain Jasper (Jack Huston).

One fieldworker is punished with particular viciousness until she submits to the name her enslaver, known only as Him (Eric Lange), has given her.

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