Fences

August Wilson's towering play, the winner of the Tony and Pulitzer prizes, has been magnificently put on screen by director/star Denzel Washington, who won a Tony for the play's 2012 Broadway revival, and who works with much of that show's cast in this version.

Wilson's own screenplay wisely avoids the usual impulse to "open up" a play by adding locations and reducing the dialogue. The best known...

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