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What works best - and worst - about Antebellum is wrapped up in its secrets and how the writer-directors' deal with them

As for the why of it all, that too stays shrouded in mystery-but perhaps that's for the best. The rest of the movie is rendered in such dull tones, such clumsy execution, that it's likely they would have fumbled a more concrete message.

t's a touch of Westworld with a bit of M. Night Shyamalan's The Village, plus a heaping helping of women-in-chains-style exploitation violence, but with added racism.

Ramping up the two-dimensional good/bad contrast does cause the film to be more sensational than gritty, unfortunately; and the cleverness seems to overshadow any message of the film by the time we get to the end.

See it on the biggest screen you can. It's a moment in cinema, and you'd be a fool to miss it.