I Am Not Your Negro

"I Am Not Your Negro is poetic, inspiring, haunting, and absolutely necessary. Constructed from the unfinished text of James Baldwin’s manuscript “Remember This House”, Raoul Peck’s film stitches together a visual tapestry worthy of the late Civil Rights activist’s writings. It’s not only the story of the African-American in America, but America itself — as stirring and powerful a document of black/white race-relations as Ezra Edelman’s gargantuan, equally vital opus O.J.: Made in America."

"This is Baldwin at his most polemical, but beneath his rage you can discern a groping for unity."

"The rare movie that might be called a spiritual documentary."

"A galvanizing, ominous film, thrumming with a sense of history repeating itself."

"You would be hard-pressed to find a movie that speaks to the present moment with greater clarity and force, insisting on uncomfortable truths and drawing stark lessons from the shadows of history."

"It is a striking work of storytelling."

"Impassioned, urgent and admirable on pretty much every level it aims for and occupies."

"It is a searing and topical indictment of racial prejudice and hatred in America that makes for uneasy viewing and is not easily forgotten."

"An astonishingly powerful and profoundly affecting documentary…"