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Film Review by The African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) On the day after Christmas in 2004, a magnitude 9.3 earthquake, the third largest ever measured on the Richter scale, triggered a mammoth tsunami in the Indian Ocean which cost a quarter million people their lives. Thanks to the ubiquity of surveillance and cell phone […]

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“Zero Dark Thirty” Film Review by The African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) After 9/11, the United States intensified its efforts in the international manhunt for Osama bin Laden (Ricky Sekhon). Nevertheless, the elusive mastermind of the terrorist attack continued to orchestrate mass murders in Bali, Istanbul, London, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere around the world. […]

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Denzel Washington and the new film Django Unchained are among the honorees named by the African-American Film Critics Association. Denzel earned recognition for his starring role in Flight, while Django Unchained earned a spot in AAFCA’s Top Ten Films of 2012. The independent films Middle of Nowhere and Beasts of the Southern Wild were also […]