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Film Review: Denzel Washington and Viola Davis in 'Fences'

by Owen Gleiberman

“Fences,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama by August Wilson, was written in 1983 and had its premiere on Broadway in 1987. But the play is set 30 years before that, in a lower-middle-class black section of Pittsburgh in the mid-1950s, and when you watch it now, in the towering and impassioned screen version directed by its... Read more »

SOURCE: Variety at 10:00am on November 22, 2016