12 Years a Slave was "interesting, admirable and well done" and the British best actor nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor was "good", but the grumpy voter complained that "you don't even crack a smile" and it's "not as if it required great courage to make that movie". The film had "about 15 to 20 minutes of sluggish, boring stuff that I would have ripped out", they told The Hollywood Reporter.