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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 01 Feb 2017

What keeps I Am Not Your Negro just short of greatness is, alas, the competition from Baldwin himself…

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By Louis Proyect (533) for Counterpunch.org (73) on 01 Feb 2017

More interesting as a portrait of James Baldwin than it is of the men he planned to write about but compelling nonetheless…

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By Tirdad Derakhshani (358) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 31 Jan 2017

I’m Not Your Negro is an unforgettable work. Baldwin’s words – eloquently spoken by Samuel Jackson – will haunt you…

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By Mike Scott (1,178) for Times-Picayune (642) on 31 Jan 2017

The result is a film that is at once sobering and thoughtful -- and, yes, uncomfortable, at times. But it's a necessary uncomfortable…

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By Robin Clifford (1,670) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 31 Jan 2017

I Am Not Your Negro is a powerful and eye-opening viewpoint of a man who spent his life fighting for social justice for his race and, by extension,…

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By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 30 Jan 2017

The language is magnificent. As delivered by Samuel L. Jackson, it's one of that great voice's greatest performances…

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By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 30 Jan 2017

The film makes no concessions about its dissatisfaction with the whole rotten lot of so-called western democracy…

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By Kam Williams (1,272) for Baret News (418) on 29 Jan 2017

Given the precarious state of race relations, the late visionary's prescient insights perhaps prove more timely, posthumously, than in their own day…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 27 Jan 2017

it is [Baldwin's] voice that is the greatest takeaway here, Baldwin's passionate and deeply considered arguments irrefutable…

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By Chris Nashawaty (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 26 Jan 2017

If there’s a flaw with the film (and it’s a minor one), it’s Peck’s impulse to cram it with clips from lily-white Doris Day movies…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Combustible Celluloid (2,644) on 19 Jan 2017

A short capsule review cannot do this documentary's depth of intelligence justice, but suffice to say that it uses history and literature to…

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By S. James Wegg (203) for JWR (201) on 18 Jan 2017

20 years after his death, James Baldwin's voice, passion and insights are just as powerful as ever…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 04 Jan 2017

Best of all is the man who stands front and center, thinking, smoking and expounding, off-the-cuff, about a subject he spent his career and…

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By Glenn Dunks (375) for Film Experience (395) on 03 Jan 2017

Whatever the book would have been, as a film, it is an attempt to make sense of the modern world by looking back at the past through the eyes…

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By Richard Brody (868) for New Yorker (1,403) on 02 Jan 2017

Peck's references to current events reveal Baldwin's view of history and his prophetic visions to be painfully accurate…

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By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 13 Dec 2016

Along with reintroducing and reinterpreting Baldwin, the man and artist, for a new generation, Peck passionately conveys him as acutely relevant…

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By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 10 Dec 2016

The most urgent movie of 2016, which seems a strange thing to say about a movie written in the 1980s, predominately about the 1960s. But here we are…

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By Maria Garcia (194) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 08 Dec 2016

Intelligent but sometimes discursive documentary about African-American author James Baldwin…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 08 Dec 2016

Masterfully addressing the American racial divide, past and present, director Raoul Peck’s six-years-in-the-making documentary, I Am Not…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 08 Dec 2016

What makes I Am Not Your Negro a mesmerizing cinematic experience, smart, thoughtful and disturbing, goes well beyond words…

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