Highest rated movie: Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021)
Lowest rated movie: Celsius 41.11 (2004)
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Movies starring Al Sharpton have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 67%.
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) - released in 2021 - is Al Sharpton's highest rated movie, with a score of 81% based on 50 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Al Sharpton is Celsius 41.11 - released in 2004 - with a score of 45% based on 11 reviews.
Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr. (born October 3, 1954) is an American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, television/radio talk show host and a former White House adviser for President Barack Obama. In 2004, he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. presidential election. He hosts his own radio talk show, Keepin' It Real, and he makes regular guest appearances cable news television. In 2011, he was named the host of MSNBC's PoliticsNation, a nightly talk show. In 2015, the program was shifted to Sunday mornings.
Sharpton's supporters praise "his ability and willingness to defy the power structure that is seen as the cause of their suffering" and consider him "a man who is willing to tell it like it is". Former Mayor of New York City Ed Koch, a one-time foe, said that Sharpton deserves the respect he enjoys among black Americans: "He is willing to go to jail for them, and he is there when they need him." President Barack Obama said that Sharpton is "the voice of the voiceless and a champion for the downtrodden." A 2013 Zogby Analytics poll found that one quarter of African Americans said that Sharpton speaks for them.
His critics describe him as "a political radical who is to blame, in part, for the deterioration of race relations". Sociologist Orlando Patterson has referred to him as a racial arsonist, while liberal columnist Derrick Z. Jackson has called him the black equivalent of Richard Nixon and Pat Buchanan. Sharpton sees much of the criticism as a sign of his effectiveness. "In many ways, what they consider criticism is complimenting my job," he said. "An activist's job is to make public civil rights issues until there can be a climate for change.
Al Sharpton has acted in films with Bill Clinton, Rudolph Giuliani, Spike Lee and Barack Obama.
Al Sharpton has worked with these film directors: Spike Lee, Tyler Perry, Steven Brill and Questlove.
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