Featuring a powerful performance from Keke Palmer in the title role, Alice is an exercise in narrative subversion, which merges conflicting genres, blindsides expectant audiences and rarely lets up. It features a heady concoction of Southern Gothic slave fable and ’70s grindhouse pastiche, and oozes blaxploitation chic reminiscent of the independent films of that genre. Writer-director Krystin Ver Linden then continues the full-frontal assault, by allowing veteran actor Jonny Lee Miller free rein to craft an antagonist, in the Paul character he portrays, who audiences can genuinely despise.
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