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Robert Daniels

Robert Daniels is a Chicago-based film critic with freelance bylines in the New York Times, in the Los Angeles Times, at RogerEbert.com, at Polygon, and at the Playlist. He has written widely about Black American pop culture and issues of representation.

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Beasts of No Nation: A Different Kind of African War Film

Cary Joji Fukunaga’s devastating child-soldier movie unflinchingly captures the shock of war without forsaking the complexity of human experience.

By Robert Daniels

Essays— Aug 31, 2021