I Am Not Your Negro - Reviews

...a striking work of storytelling. By assembling the scattered images and historical clips suggested by Baldwin’s writing, I Am Not Your Negro is a cinematic séance, and one of the best movies about the civil rights era ever made.

...an excellent primer for those less familiar with Baldwin.

...operates on many levels at once: It’s not only a fresh vessel for Baldwin’s own analysis of black life in America, but a platform for his assessment of other great thinkers who informed his views.

As every frame throbs with up-to-the-minute political purpose, you can’t help but feel that this tale was just waiting for history to catch up.

James Baldwin reclaims the spotlight in Raoul Peck’s magnificent film essay.

Ideas and their visual illustrations come at the viewer in a cascading torrent.

...'I Am Not Your Negro' er en vigtig film, og det giver forhåbentligt folk lyst til at dykke ned i James Baldwins omfattende værker, for de er stadig aktuelle.

På en gang anklagende og imødekommende, harmdirrende og afmålt.

En mäktig och omvälvande essäfilm.

...dens emotionelle kraft ligger i de arkivoptagelser, hvor den velformulerede forfatter tryllebinder forsamlinger med sin roligt indtrængende stemme og sit martrede, men dog determinerede ansigtsudtryk...

Raoul Pecks hyllade dokumentär om James Baldwins krönika över medborgarrättskämparna Medgar Evers, Malcolm X och Martin Luther King Jr. är i sina bästa stunder lika elegant och knivskarp som författaren själv.