Review of I Am Not Your Negro (2017) by Amir K — 25 Nov 2017

Superb film. Makes amazing points on race.

This review of I Am Not Your Negro (2017) was written by Amir K on 25 Nov 2017.

I Am Not Your Negro has generally received very positive reviews.

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Movie night with Iris. Angry polemic manuscript, which Peck builds a searing documentary around. It's powerful stuff…

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By Anne Brodie (132) for What She Said (131) on 23 Aug 2018

Raoul Peck's work is so good and Baldwin's words are so gallingly true and fiery it made me weak at the knees; it's one of my favourite films…

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By Luke Goodsell (126) for The Neighbourhood Paper (Australia) (13) on 11 Sep 2017

Raoul Peck's Oscar-nominated documentary, I Am Not Your Negro, takes one of Baldwin's unfinished manuscripts, Remember This House, and transforms…

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By Vicky Roach (269) for Daily Telegraph (Australia) (376) on 11 Sep 2017

Director Raoul Peck picks up where the author left off, using the unfinished manuscript as a kind of blueprint for this incendiary, Oscar-nominated…

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By Sarah Watt (52) for Stuff.co.nz (387) on 20 Sep 2017

Incomplete and unpublished by the time of his death eight years later, the letters have been picked up by Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck who…

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By Diane Carson (151) for KDHX (St. Louis) (284) on 28 Aug 2017

Baldwin's striking insights are as valid today as they were over three decades ago…

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By Greg R (1,187) on 03 Sep 2017

Quintessential and it sure will resonate till the human race would exist…

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By Sue B (570) on 30 Sep 2017

Enlightening for anyone wondering what the NFL kneeling protest is really about…

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By Damien Straker (239) for Impulse Gamer (252) on 19 Sep 2017

There's still enough new insights and statements of power to make the film worth seeing, along with its unfortunate and disturbing timeliness…

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By Hollywood H (44) on 03 Feb 2018

Rather impactful... and tragic to see how it seems little has changed in the US…

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