Release dates
May 2, 2017
98 months agoBlu-ray / DVD / VOD
Released
I Am Not Your Negro release date
The anticipated movie I Am Not Your Negro is already released on Cinema, Blu-ray, DVD and VOD in the USA.
What the critics say
Based on 17 reviews, I Am Not Your Negro gets an average review score of 93
Though its principal figure, the novelist, playwright and essayist James Baldwin, is a man who has been dead for nearly 30 years, 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.
3003d ago
'I'm Not Your Negro': A brilliant, ambitious study of literary giant and activist James Baldwin.
3003d ago
Like Ava DuVernay’s 13th, Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro travels a straight, well-researched path from the darkest tragedies of American history to the ones that plague the country today.
3003d ago
Raoul Peck’s stunning look at the civil rights era ends up as the writer’s presumptive autobiography, but it gets there via an unexpected route.
3003d ago
Baldwin's unfinished book project subject of powerful documentary.
3003d ago
A brilliant piece of filmic writing, one that bursts with fierce urgency, not just for the long-unresolved history it seeks to confront, but also in its attempt to understand what is happening here, right now.
3003d ago
Raoul Peck's transcendent documentary takes a kaleidoscopic journey through the life and mind of James Baldwin, whose voice speaks even more powerfully today than it did 50 years ago.
3003d ago
An unflinching look at writer and social critic James Baldwin’s life, his struggle for civil rights and his unfinished book.
3003d ago
Peck captures all that’s galvanizing and forceful about Baldwin’s words and demeanor.
3003d ago
The film’s narration is culled from Baldwin’s own words, and they’re spoken by Samuel L. Jackson, who trades in his thunderclap for a hushed whisper.
3003d ago
By the very virtue of its origins and subject matter, I Am Not A Negro needs to leave on a place of unresolved tension.
3003d ago
Read by Samuel L. Jackson, the words of writer James Baldwin link three American civil rights activists — Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X — in Raoul Peck’s documentary.
3003d ago
I Am Not Your Negro turns an abandoned James Baldwin book into a brilliant doc.
3003d ago
The film makes no concessions about its dissatisfaction with the whole rotten lot of so-called western democracy.
3003d ago
Oscar-nominated portrait of James Baldwin uses author's words to bridge civil-rights past with our racially incendiary present.
3003d ago
Raoul Peck's "I Am Not Your Negro" is a political statement and a deep look into the mind of James Baldwin, one of the 20th century's greatest writers and social critics.
3003d ago
When the great author, essayist, and public intellectual James Baldwin died in 1987, he left behind 30 pages of an unfinished manuscript that was to be titled Remember This House.
3003d ago