A historical epic based on the real-life Agojie woman warriors of the Dahomey Kingdom tops the DVD releases for the week of Dec. 13.
"The Woman King": Starring Viola Davis, Thuso Mbedu, Lashana Lynch and John Boyega, this action-filled drama follows a brutal battle for freedom from slavery in 19th-century West Africa.
"The violence enacted by these women warriors is delightfully graceful and inventive ... but make no mistake, it is bone-crunchingly vicious and devastatingly effective too," writes Tribune News Service critic Katie Walsh in her review. "This isn’t just the first time we’ve seen Black women do battle on this scale — it’s the first time we’ve seen women, en masse, engaged in the kind of realistic and gritty violence that marks historical action epics."
