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Supremacy

Play trailer Poster for Supremacy 2014,  1h 46m,  Drama/ Mystery & Thriller Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 33% 12 Reviews Tomatometer 84% 1,000+ Ratings Popcornmeter
33% Tomatometer 12 Reviews 84% Popcornmeter 1,000+ Ratings
After a fugitive white supremacist (Joe Anderson) takes him and his family hostage, a black man (Danny Glover) uses their common background as ex-cons to try to convince his captor not to kill his loved ones.

Critics Reviews

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Shadow and Act Staff Shadow and Act Sep 13, 2022
Supremacy rests on a premise that makes for high drama and surprise, though it’s not always executed. It’s the stuff of nightmarish fiction but the nonfiction source material adds a level of depth to its commentary on racism and race... Go to Full Review
Jeannette Catsoulis New York Times Jan 29, 2015
Feeding over-the-top language to underdeveloped characters, Deon Taylor's "Supremacy" dramatizes racism with an unvarying intensity that quickly becomes wearing. Go to Full Review
Martin Tsai Los Angeles Times Jan 29, 2015
The film plays out almost like a conventional Hollywood hostage thriller but for the incendiary, racially charged subtext. Go to Full Review
Debbie Lynn Elias Behind The Lens Dec 8, 2019
Director Deon Taylor explores the dividing lines of race, family and the hate that fuels those lines, with an intensity that at times is almost overwhelming with explosive emotion...Powerful. Emotionally charged. Riveting. Masterful. Go to Full Review
Neely Swanson Easy Reader (California) Sep 15, 2017
Deon Taylor's surprisingly resonant and deceptively deep film Supremacy comes at you with a hammer and ends up filleting you with a scalpel. Go to Full Review
Mark Jackson Epoch Times Jun 7, 2016
2.5/5
'Supremacy' might function as a 'Clockwork Orange' type therapy for death-row white supremacists. Go to Full Review
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Audience Reviews

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Harry S Jan 29, 2015 Supremacy is a well-acted, abysmally written, deeply unpleasant exercise that pays no dividends of insight for the chore of enduring its endless racial epithets. See more
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Movie Info

Synopsis After a fugitive white supremacist (Joe Anderson) takes him and his family hostage, a black man (Danny Glover) uses their common background as ex-cons to try to convince his captor not to kill his loved ones.
Director
Deon Taylor
Producer
Roxanne Avent
Screenwriter
Eric J. Adams
Production Co
Hidden Empire Film Group
Genre
Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 29, 2015
Runtime
1h 46m
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