Harriet (2019)

Harriet Tubman and Cynthia Erivo are the true forces to be reckoned with in this film.
Escaping to freedom in the most dangerous way possible, jumping into a lake, Harriet fled the clutches of slavery when her owner, Gideon (Joe Alwyn) refused to free her despite having some paperwork to prove otherwise.
Though Harriet is grateful for everything and her new friend, Marie Buchanan (Janelle Monae), she feels restless and risks her life to return and save them, only to discover that her freed husband, John (Zackary Momoh) has married another. But that doesn't deter her. She still gets her brothers to freedom and continues to sneak around, freeing slaves all around Maryland, costing the owners hundreds of dollars. While the odds may not be in her favor, she doesn't get caught, through her good luck, almost supernatural ability to communicate with God, and her wits, she gets  several dozen people to freedom, with the film climaxing with a confrontation between Gideon and Harriet, with Harriet winning.
Erivo is a revelation as Harriet and the screenplay gives her plenty to do and she rises to the occasion, though her visions are probably the downfall of the film. While potentially realistic, they zap you out of film into another world and no reason is provided for why Harriet had such visions, not even in the end credits, which is a total shame.
Still, this is finally the biopicture that Harriet Tubman deserved with an actress who got underneath her skin appropriately. Grade: B+
Side Notes:
-Many of the main actors in this film are also singers. Both Erivo and Leslie Odom, Jr (as abolitionist William Still) have won Tonys for their singing. Monae and Jennifer Nettles (as the matriarch of the family) are also singers and Joe Alwyn is dating Taylor Swift, the biggest  and most popular singer of them all.
-Joe Alwyn is number one on my villain for the past two years. In 2018, for Boy Erased and in 2019 for this film. He'd better take on nicer roles in the near future.