@REEL_DEAL2025-12-18 05:00 UTC
If 12 Years a Slave was a meal, it'd be unsalted rice with extra ego.
2013 · Biography / Drama / History
12 Years a Slave
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COMMUNITY LEDGER · 0 ROASTS REGISTERED
SALT SHAKER · PLATFORM AVG
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Masterfully crafted. Un-roastable.
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An absolute cinematic disaster.
No synopsis available. Probably for the best.
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— THE DOSSIER
RELEASE DATE
2013
RUNTIME
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GENRE
Biography / Drama / History
PLOT SUMMARY
Synopsis withheld out of mercy.
STARRING CAST
Cast information unavailable.
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@ROW_F_REGRET2025-12-09 16:00 UTC
Two solid hours of characters staring intensely out of rain-slicked windows. Brilliant work, 12 Years a Slave.
@ENDING_LEAKS2025-12-20 04:00 UTC
Watched 12 Years a Slave so you don't have to. You're welcome.
@SCREEN_SHADE2025-12-25 04:00 UTC
12 Years a Slave: proof the studio reads its own marketing too literally.
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r/boxoffice · u/PracticalFX_Stan🔥 1.4k points
[Serious Discussion] Is anyone else completely checked out by the pacing in 12 Years a Slave?
Everyone praising the 12 Years a Slave performances must have watched a different cut. The lead is sleepwalking through this and the supporting cast can't save it.
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r/flicks · u/ScriptDoctor99🔥 1.2k points
Unpopular opinion: 12 Years a Slave is the most overrated film of the decade
Look, I wanted to love 12 Years a Slave. The trailer had me hyped. But sitting through the second hour felt like a homework assignment. The dialogue is exposition stacked on exposition and the score keeps telling me how to feel.
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r/flicks · u/PopcornPhilosopher🔥 2.0k points
The cinematography in 12 Years a Slave is doing all the heavy lifting and it shows
Just got out of 12 Years a Slave and I'm convinced critics are being paid in residuals. Two genuinely good scenes do not make a film. Convince me otherwise.
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