Harriet's reviews
Media reviews
The Guardian
The result falls somewhere between a slave-escape drama, an action thriller, a western and even an unexpected kind of superhero film. It?s a winning combination, although Lemmons does not immerse us in the agony and injustice of slavery as such; she puts together a well-crafted movie that is the showcase for an excellent performance from Erivo.
Entertainment Weekly
If its aim to inspire and educate inevitably leaves the movie feeling a little classroom-bound, Harriet is still an impassioned, edifying portrait of a remarkable life, and a fitting showcase for the considerable talents of its star, Tony-winning British actress Cynthia Erivo.
The Hollywood Reporter
Despite Erivo's tenacity in the role, the drama feels more stately and impressive than urgent and affecting. It's never uninvolving though, and the script does a solid job of tracing the formation of a courageous freedom fighter out of a scared runaway.
Screen Daily
A thoughtful biopic that grows more involving the more it shrugs off its tendency towards the reverential.
Indiewire
Harriet doesn?t reinvent the biopic formula, but Erivo?s performance injects a palpable urgency to the material that makes up for missed time.
The Wrap
A disappointingly standard biopic, one whose technical flaws and paint-by-numbers clichés threaten to overshadow its subject?s compelling story.
Fotogramas
A dissapointing racial drama (...) the balance falls in the sensationalism, the naphthalene and a certain television air, in the worst sense of the word. (...) the only good thing is the perfect performance of Cynthia Erivo.