Many were decades out of date, showing young, strong men instead of the middle - aged field hands the men had become. (bookbrowse.com)
A notorious and psychotic slave breaker, Epps, superbly acted by the fearless Fassbender, is the absolute ruler of a disturbing alternate universe of his own devising, one characterized by his alternating passion for and disgust with the slave Patsy (Nyong «o), his sexual chattel as well as the best field hand on his plantation. (orlandosentinel.com)