Review of Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021) by Katie Rife for The A.V. Club — 30 Jun 2021

Where Summer Of Soul really distinguishes itself is in Thompson’s inspired filmmaking. Making his directorial debut, the Roots drummer and frontman approaches this condensed narrative with a musician’s sense of timing, expertly assembling rhythmic montages with editor Joshua Pearson that transcend flashy music-video devices to relay a sense of conversation, of voices reaching across the decades to be heard.