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HomeFront: 'Underground Railroad' delivers, starring roles for Angelina Jolie and Amy Adams, plus a comic from Dorchester goes big


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HomeFront: ‘Underground Railroad’ delivers, starring roles for Angelina Jolie and Amy Adams, plus a comic from Dorchester goes big
By Marie Morris Globe Correspondent,Updated May 14, 2021, 8:30 a.m.
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Thuso Mbedu as Cora in The Underground Railroad. Kyle Kaplan/Amazon Studios
Welcome once again to HomeFront, where what would normally be a pre-Memorial Day weekend lull is a steady hum of activity as the three-dimensional world opens up a little bit more with each passing day.
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“The Underground Railroad” traces “the long, fraught journey of a woman, a people, and a country,” writes the Globe’s Ty Burr. In the hands of Barry Jenkins (”Moonlight”), the “transfixing” 10-episode adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel isn’t perfectly paced — ”the middle sections . sag like a country bridge” — but at its best, “it exerts ....

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