Toronto Film Review: ‘Harriet’

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Toronto Film Review: ‘Harriet’
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When you see photographs of Harriet Tubman (and many exist), she appears, in an eerie way, to be staring right at us. Her implacable scowl throws down a gauntlet that cuts across the ages. Cynthia …

,” nails that thousand-yard glare with a furious and mournful eloquence. She looks just like you’d imagine Harriet Tubman might have looked when she wasn’t staring down a photographer’s lens. As Harriet, Erivo communicates anger and anguish, fear and resolve, all held together by something like possession.

As a heroine, Harriet Tubman is long overdue on the big screen, and “Harriet” is a conscientiously uplifting, devoted, rock-solid version of her story. Yet when it comes to putting the audience in touch with what’sabout Harriet Tubman — not just illustrating what she did but letting us connect with it on a moment-to-moment level — “Harriet” is a conventional and rather prosaic piece of filmmaking.

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