Before You Know It

There's an aging LGBT community that is only getting bigger and older, and this documentary investigates that process – in ways both specific and universal.

"...Meet Ty, an African-American advocate and activist living in Harlem who is passionately..."

June 20, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Precious Lloyd

Butler School concert honors African American composer

"...have long been recognized as an essential part of African American music, but little attention has gone to the..."

Feb. 8, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Gangster Squad

Despite uneven filmmaking and questionable facts, an extraordinary cast brings this story about mobster Mickey Cohen's attempted takeover of L.A. and the handful of honest cops who thwarted him.

"...foil. Officer Coleman Harris (Mackie) is the streetwise, knife-wielding African-American of the group. The legendary sharpshooter and old-timer Max..."

Jan. 11, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

Brooklyn Castle

"...is within reach of becoming the world's first female African-American chess master – reveal the less obvious benefits and..."

Nov. 2, 2012 Movie Review by Nora Ankrum

'Ghosts of Ole Miss' Comes Off as Obtuse

Attempt at explaining a civil rights story is a mess

"...scene in A League of Their Own when an African-American woman throws a foul ball back to Dottie Henson..."

Oct. 30, 2012 Sports Post by Will Eidam

Red Tails

George Lucas exec produced – and bankrolled – this action/drama about the historic Tuskegee Airmen.

"...the pioneering Tuskegee airmen of World War II's all African-American 332nd Fighter Group finally makes it to the big..."

Jan. 27, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey

We're tickled silly by this documentary.

"...titular Elmo so much as that of the young African-American puppeteer, Kevin Clash, who eventually ended up bringing life,..."

Dec. 2, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Jumping the Broom

This urban family rom-com actually has something interesting to say about race and romance.

"...multilingual, and in all respects a perfect portrait of African-American landed gentry (so to speak). Jason's backstory is that..."

May 6, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Princess and the Frog

Disney's 49th animated feature film is set in Jazz Age New Orleans and stars a black cast of characters.

"...is Disney's first animated film with a nearly all African-American cast (the less said about Song of the South,..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Good Hair

In this thoughtful documentary, Chris Rock touches on – if by no means produces a definitive telling of – many facets of the highly charged topic of African-American hair.

"...to maintain, especially if you're among the millions of African-American women (and, in far fewer numbers, men) who have..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

A Man Named Pearl

A self-taught topiary artist in South Carolina is profiled in this amiable but unadventurous documentary.

"...be exact, the imagination of Pearl Fryar, a 66-year-old African-American son of a sharecropper who has turned his private..."

Aug. 8, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Love Guru

Is it redundant to mock self-help culture? Not if you're Mike Myers and have a new sketch-comedy character to introduce.

"...to Toronto to act as spiritual adviser to an African-American hockey player whose obsession with his ex-wife’s generously endowed,..."

June 20, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Honeydripper

John Sayles’ new drama is about life in a destitute African-American cotton-farming town in Jim Crow-era Alabama and the music that gave the region its mythology.

"...Honeydripper, Sayles’ new drama about life in a destitute African-American cotton-farming town in Jim Crow-era Alabama and the music..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Hard Fight 04, Dirty Fight '06, Court Fight '07

Ranking Dallas County Republicans face libel charges over 2006 election allegations.

"...basis for the complaint? Miller had received lots of African-American votes in a primarily African-American precinct...."

Oct. 17, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Waist Deep

An ex-con in Los Angeles gets pulled back into the gang wars when he has to rescue his son, who was in his carjacked vehicle.

"...about street gangs and the vicious circle in which African-American men often find themselves seem like an afterthought, rather..."

June 30, 2006 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Something New

Think Bridget Jones' lovelorn but marriage-obsessed single woman, only make her a neat-freak, not a basket case, and a comely African-American, not a plumpish, pasty Brit in this genre-tweaking romantic comedy.

"...a neat-freak, not a basket case, and a comely African-American, not a plumpish, pasty Brit. Kenya McQueen (the terrifically..."

Feb. 3, 2006 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Fog

This hazy remake pales in comparison to John Carpenter's original fogbanks from 1980.

"...local fisherman with a dirty bloodline and, bizarrely, an African-American sidekick-cum-first-mate (Davis) apparently onboard to give the script an..."

Oct. 21, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Honeymooners

Instead of reworking the original TV show’s subject matter regarding class and marriage, this is plodding mimicry featuring a predominantly African-American cast.

"...would be worth seeing, particularly with the film’s predominantly African-American cast. Instead, the film engages the issue of racism..."

June 10, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Beauty Shop

Amiable Queen Latifah comedy is the latest offering from the Barbershop franchise.

"...her own shop. It’s a ramshackle business in an African-American neighborhood that she and the other stylists fix up..."

April 1, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Brother to Brother

A festival favorite jumps to the big screen with its story that compares and contrasts life as a gay black man in the present day and the Harlem Renaissance.

"...hipster (Burns) and chafes against the homophobia entrenched in African-American political activism, he becomes fascinated by Nugent, who reveals..."

Dec. 17, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Love Don't Cost a Thing

A nerdy high school student pays a cheerleader to pretend to be his girlfriend in order to appear cool.

"...Love Don't Cost a Thing is an "urbanized" (read African-American) remake of the 1987 teen comedy Can’t Buy Me..."

Dec. 19, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Lucky Seven

For seven years, Pro Arts Collective has consistently drawn an impressive and intriguing lineup of dancers, choreographers, and companies from across the nation for its annual African American Festival of Dance, and the 2003 edition continues that tradition.

"...was the year Pro Arts Collective inaugurated its annual African American Festival of Dance and given the festival is..."

July 18, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Antwone Fisher

"...the role of the title character -- a young African-American man whose unspoken inner rage finds misdirected expression among..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Wash

"...on urban black culture. But I figure, hey -- African-American movie fans are a powerful, assertive market bloc who..."

Nov. 23, 2001 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Punks

"...Never mind the fact that romantic comedies about gay African-American and Latino men aren't exactly plentiful, let alone ones..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Baby Boy

"...lot of provocative ideas regarding our culture's infantilization of African-American men, not least of these ideas being the young..."

June 29, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

George Washington

Green's debut feature is a sublime tone poem about adolescence

"...a group of kids during summer vacation. These predominantly African-American kids between the ages of 8 and 14 are..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Smiling Fish and Goat On Fire

"...who used to work the boom mike on old African-American-made movies. Clive met his wife on the job and..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Men of Honor

"...the life of Carl Brashear,” the U.S. Navy's first African-American master diver. A forerunner of today's elite Navy Seals,..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Love and Basketball

A young woman learns to navigate the hoops on and off the court.

"...and Quincy (Epps) are childhood pals from an upscale African-American neighborhood in L.A. Two things bind them together for..."

April 21, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

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