Review of I Am Not Your Negro (2017) by Niki G — 12 Feb 2017

Best movie I have seen in years. We all need to see it.

This review of I Am Not Your Negro (2017) was written by Niki G on 12 Feb 2017.

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

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By Violet Lucca (89) for Sight and Sound (827) on 28 Dec 2017

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By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

What transpires is a still-searing indictment of the systemic racism that underpins our civic, moral and cultural institutions…

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By Keeva Stratton (79) for Rescu (Australia) (79) on 26 Sep 2017

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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 Toby Woollaston (47) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 20 Sep 2017

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By Toba Singer (10) for culturevulture.net (793) on 19 Dec 2017

Raoul Peck takes a unique approach to documenting the meditations of the late Harlem-born author James Baldwin, who lived as an expatriate…

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By James Marsh (180) for South China Morning Post (665) on 17 Jan 2018

[This] montage of America's explosive history of racial intolerance makes for compelling, if at times uncomfortable viewing…

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By Kelvin D (20) on 16 Nov 2017

Regardless of where you stand on the issue of race in the United States, something we can all agree on is there is something wrong here…

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By Nando Salvá (25) for Cinemanía (Spain) (558) on 13 Feb 2018

an epic work... [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Christopher Llewellyn Reed (298) for Hammer to Nail (208) on 24 Feb 2018

Director Peck ... , in meticulous detail, walks us through his subject's life from childhood precocity to adult eloquence…

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