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Nate Parker
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The Birth of a Nation’s Blunt-Force Trauma
The Sundance sensation may not be great art, but its snarling urgency makes it a movie for our times.
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Nate Parker’s Birth of a Nation is already a Sundance Festival smash hit.

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