Cincinnati Enquirer Many movies are awful.
Some movies are good.
Very rarely, a movie is truly important. Beloved is one of those. Adapted by Akosua Busia, Richard LaGravenese and Adam Brooks from Toni Morrison s dense Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the film weaves together historical drama, ghost story, mystery and romance. The center of the story is Sethe, rendered in a passionate performance by Oprah Winfrey as a woman who bears psychic and physical scars from slavery almost 20 years after her escape. Then a young woman appears, unmarked, childlike, hungry.