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Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: EXCELLENT (cg) "...gets beyond the familiar fetishistic trappings -- the Black Panthers posing with their guns and Che-knockoff Marxist berets, etc. -- to reveal the humanistic yearnings of the key players." (Read the full review...) 77 words, 09/02/11
A.O. Scott, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...an extraordinary feat of editing and archival research [that] takes up a familiar period in American history from a fresh and fascinating angle." (Read the full review...) 611 words, 09/09/11 Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...filled with vintage images and important voices.... provides testament to the era's impact and inspiration." (Read the full review...) 100 words, 09/09/11 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "...the images in 'Black Power' are electric. They have the immediacy of history being lived in front of the camera and the charm of allowing us to glimpse the people who made that history before they turned into icons." (Read the full review...) 581 words, 09/23/11 J. Hoberman, Village Voice/LA Weekly: VERY GOOD "...remarkably fresh... Swedish footage is distinguished from the American tele-journalism of the period by its interest in hearing from the most articulate proponents of black power and the programmatic nonviolent attempt to 'intensify the struggle.' " (Read the full review...) 576 words, 09/07/11
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: MODERATE (cg) "...suffers from a surfeit of credulity.... [but] is nonetheless at its strongest when it allows the subjects to speak for themselves..." (Read the full review...) 493 words, 09/30/11 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: MODERATE (cg) "Viewers without a working knowledge of the era may wish for more historical context; the film often feels like a nostalgia trip for those who lived through it." (Read the full review...) 126 words, 10/28/11 Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...it's the footage that astounds and fascinates: Stokely Carmichael, Eldridge Cleaver, and Huey P. Newton... a group of schoolkids at a kind of black power training academy singing an altered chorus from 'Land of 1,000 Dances' so the 'naaa nananana' is 'pick up the guns.' " (Read the full review...) 850 words, 09/30/11 David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD (cg) "...[features] extraordinary, virtually unseen footage from the days of the black power movement... takes us to protests, street scenes and other events.... will give you a new perspective on the past - and the present." (Read the full review...) 272 words, 09/23/11 Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "...frequently fascinating if not quite cogent... From the fly-on-the-wall, cinéma-vérité style of the '60s to a more aggressive, advocacy approach in the mid-'70s, 'Mixtape' is a wide slice of nonfiction film history." (Read the full review...) 365 words, 10/14/11 Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian: VERY GOOD (cg) "...not your usual sort of documentary.... It may not add up to a narrative, but it's a fascinating compilation -- a mixtape you may want to hear more than once." (Read the full review...) 246 words, 10/28/11 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: VERY GOOD (cg) "...it's thrilling to hear from unrepentant revolutionaries such as Angela Davis and amusing to hear from their bell-bottomed white lawyers. More importantly, we hear from ordinary blacks whose futures were being debated." (Read the full review...) 332 words, 10/28/11 Tom Long, Detroit News: GOOD (cg) "Even though it concludes just as urban areas are being flooded with heroin, the film nevertheless shows a sense of progress. This may not have been a true revolution, but it was certainly part of an evolution." (Read the full review...) 293 words, 10/21/11 Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...far from a complete or well-rounded history of the Black Power movement, but the film's eclectic nature -- along with the odd Swedish [filmmakers'] slant of the segments -- make it undeniably entertaining and occasionally illuminating." (Read the full review...) 341 words, 03/11/11
J. Hoberman, Village Voice/LA Weekly: VERY GOOD "...remarkably fresh... Swedish footage is distinguished from the American tele-journalism of the period by its interest in hearing from the most articulate proponents of black power and the programmatic nonviolent attempt to 'intensify the struggle.' " (Read the full review...) 576 words, 09/07/11 Gerald Peary, Boston Phoenix: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a collage of privileged documentary moments from 1967 to 1975... An interesting, articulate voice-over is provided by current African-American writers, rappers, and academics commenting on the still-incendiary footage, as well as [Angela] Davis, still militant." (Read the full review...) 130 words, 09/29/11 Noel Murray, AV Club: VERY GOOD (cg) "...strings together some of the most compelling interviews and vignettes, showing how the early promise of civil rights was sidetracked by infighting, black-on-black crime, and drug addiction." (Read the full review...) 400 words, 09/08/11 Lauren Wissot, Slant: MODERATE (cg) "...full of cool talking heads pontificating rather than taking physical action. Its dry, unemotional spirit doesn't come close to capturing the passion of the years bookending the critical juncture of 1968. Nor does most of its never-before-seen footage seem exclusive." (Read the full review...) 708 words, 03/21/11 Curt Holman, Atlanta Creative Loafing: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...a collage of powerful images from America's turbulent racial history, from Black Panther Party school rooms to Attica Prison cells to Harlem's most impoverished streets.... [a] powerful history lesson." (Read the full review...) 674 words, 10/12/11
A.O. Scott, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...an extraordinary feat of editing and archival research [that] takes up a familiar period in American history from a fresh and fascinating angle." (Read the full review...) 611 words, 09/09/11 Mark Jenkins, NPR: GOOD "...provides a view from abroad, from a country [Sweden] with a particular enthusiasm for the American dissidents of the the day -- and it's pretty interesting, if far from definitive." (Read the full review...) 528 words, 09/08/11 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "...the images in 'Black Power' are electric. They have the immediacy of history being lived in front of the camera and the charm of allowing us to glimpse the people who made that history before they turned into icons." (Read the full review...) 581 words, 09/23/11
Andrew Barker, Daily Variety: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...appropriately titled: Like any mixtape, it offers some truly transcendent moments alongside a smattering of filler, and never quite assembles its pieces into a cohesive whole." (Read the full review...) 404 words, 01/30/11 James Greenberg, Hollywood Reporter: EXCELLENT "A vital record of the black power movement in rare archival footage.... a film that should be seen by anyone who wants to learn where we've come from as a nation." (Read the full review...) 632 words, 02/06/11 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "...the images in 'Black Power' are electric. They have the immediacy of history being lived in front of the camera and the charm of allowing us to glimpse the people who made that history before they turned into icons." (Read the full review...) 581 words, 09/23/11 A.O. Scott, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...an extraordinary feat of editing and archival research [that] takes up a familiar period in American history from a fresh and fascinating angle." (Read the full review...) 611 words, 09/09/11
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