2013: "12 Years a Slave"
Critic score: 96/100
User score: 8/10
Summary: "In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man living in upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery."
What critics said: "The genius of '12 Years a Slave' is its insistence on banal evil, and on terror, that seeped into souls, bound bodies and reaped an enduring, terrible price." — The New York Times