Will Smith Makes an Arduous Trek in Emancipation

Back in the olden days of 2015, Leonardo DiCaprio scraped and grunted his way toward an Oscar in the grueling survival film The Revenant. It was a gnarly spectacle, technically dazzling but cold at the center. It was awfully hard to care about this guy, tearing across native lands in the pre-Civil War American frontier. He was, in many ways, a part of the ongoing horror of manifest destiny. Why root for him? Will Smith does something similar in Antoine Fuqua’s Emancipation (in theaters now, on AppleTV+ December 9), a survival epic with far more righteousness at its heart. Smith… Read Full Article