Mini-Review: This film left me completely cold. People were crying in the theater Selma is being sentenced to death and I was doing my best not to laugh out loud at how manipulative and inane it all was. The friend I accompanied was very moved but I just had to shrug as he raved about it afterwards. I found it all very contrived, hackneyed, dreadfully dull and obvious and predictable, poorly written, terribly acted (or emoted).