Alicia I love this movie so much

Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

arfdawg-1 I was hoping I would like this movie, but the net net is that there is nothing new and it's just plain boring.A complete rehash of the past that the left can't let go of.Do yourself a favor and ship this monstrosity. In fact, start boycotting agenda based films.

Karl Self First of, you have to hand it to Samuel Jackson. He could make my tax statement sound captivating. Next, director Raoul Peck manages to back him up with a stunning visual collage of archive footage.So "I Am Not Your Negro" is a surprisingly easy watch, despite the fact that it is based on an unfinished script by James Baldwin So why is this movie called "I Am Not Your Negro"? I don't know. And in any case, I don't want "you" to be my negro. Baldwin's text is called, equally obliquely, but less catchily, "Remember This House".What I got from this movie was that James Baldwin was a trained preacher, who tried to be an acolyte to far more charismatic civil rights activists (in the case case of Malcolm X, black racist) Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., who were murdered before they were 40 years old (and in Malcolm's case, by black henchmen of his own cult). The film has to pussyfoot around the fact that two other protagonists of the era, the Kennedy brothers, were also murdered, despite the fact that they were not downtrodden and as white as the cliffs of Dover.Baldwin is seen trying to convince liberal white Americans, who were all for civil rights in the first place, that fighting racism was somehow not an act of altruism but somehow would contribute to their own betterment.And also that the white sheriff in "In The Heat Of The Night" and "Mr. Tibbs" have an erotic tension going on between them.

Will Jeffery A documentary that adapts James Baldwin's unfinished book 'Remember This House' recounting the lives and assassinations of Martin Luther King Jnr., Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Not much to say other than this one of the best documentaries I've seen in a long time. Powerful material delivered like a story with the aid of archival footage, photographs, newsreels, Hollywood film clips, debates from the civil right era all to suggest Baldwin's writings. Nominated for the Best Documentary Academy Award, 'I Am Not Your Negro' is a rare cinematic achievement about an issue that is still so relevant today. You can't take your eyes off it nor your mind.

treywillwest A brilliant cine-essay that uses James Baldwin's electrifying prose as a launch pad for a critique of Hollywood cinema-as-embodiment-of-the- American-ego. The ego, in Freudian terms, is the mask of the unconscious, but one can trace the true nature of that unconscious by examining the ego, as one can map a face by feeling its contours through a mask. The N----- is, the film argues, the foundational character of the story Amerika tells itself about itself. For the N is the castrated other, the desexualized one that assures the viewer they have Power. Does not this imaginary embodiment of castration point to the puritanical impotence of the self? Is the most violent empire in history, which elected the likes of Donald Trump as its representative, not built by and for the needs of cowards?