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Ackie’s Anna is the most fas-
cinating of Lady Macbeth’s
roster of characters, a wonder-
fully complex rebuke to Samuel
L. Jackson’s one note ‘Uncle
Tom’ of Tarantino’s Django
Unchained. The actress is a
standout among a very ac-
complished cast of new faces,
imbuing Anna with a tangible
fear of repercussion. Rendered
mute by the trauma of witness-
ing one of Katherine’s murders,
Anna spends most of the movie
in silence, and it’s a testament
to Ackie’s skill that she man-
ages to communicate so much
about her situation despite
such a hindrance. We’ll see
few scenes in 2017 as tense as
the one here in which Anna is
forced to cover for the lack of
wine in the cellar, having been
swilled by Katherine and her
lover.
For an adaptation of a work
of 19th century literature, Old-
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