I Am Not Your Negro

2017 • 93 minutes
4.0
571 reviews
99%
Tomatometer
PG-13
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Eligible
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Master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin’s original words and flood of rich archival material. I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is a film that questions black representation in Hollywood and beyond. And, ultimately, by confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassination of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., Baldwin and Peck have produced a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for.
Rating
PG-13

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4.0
571 reviews
Robert Half
August 15, 2020
In my recent life, living in a low income apartment building, I have had my life threatened 3 times. I can recall in my youth going to a public pool with a friend and gaining the contempt of the kids who started tormenting me with wet towel snaps and insults hurled with their spit. I marched for good Dr. King's ends and cried out, "Soul brothers!!" to a passing car only to be met with racist contempt. I was a bleeding heart liberal, horrified that blacks were getting such a raw deal. No more.
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A Google user
May 13, 2017
So, yeah. Sometimes when I'm watching this movie, it's like, hey, I get it, sometimes I don't like the police either. The other day I was swimming, a cop stops me and he asked how my girlfriend was, I said she doesn't like beach balls, lol. I love the police. It's like sometimes when you're at the shrinks office, sitting in the chair (it's never a couch, lol), and he won't stop talking about beach balls, you know how it is. I would like to watch this movie with my girlfriend, but she doesn't like police. So, 3 stars, if they go take out the stuff about the police and beach balls, I'll give it 5 stars.
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EndtheAgenda
December 30, 2019
*Up-to-the-minute implies "Only black livesmatter" propaganda piece. My grandparents lived in Yugoslavia .All under the oppressive remnants of The Turkish ottoman empire. Being "Slavic" meant SLAVE in Yugoslavia. So many impoverished, caste class ppl in USA thru all creeds.Yet implication is only °Yourlivesmatter. SPL possibly helped this heavy handed opinion.
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