There is much to admire about 12 Years a Slave; above all, it sent me to the original text. Widely available for free, at Project Gutenberg for instance, it is more immediate and gripping than you might expect of a memoir from 1853.

The Company You Keep was a major disappointment, not to mention a soporific. And from Redford and Sarandon? Hard to understand.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. -- Dr Johnson