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NoOneIsAlone

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Good film, that expressed a lot of things along with it. I think that the film was certainly a big impact to all of us, and I really think that the film was something very original. Denzel Washington was the best man for this role, and I really...
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Good film, that expressed a lot of things along with it. I think that the film was certainly a big impact to all of us, and I really think that the film was something very original. Denzel Washington was the best man for this role, and I really think that the film explained a lot of this problem that we lived and are living. Great movie.

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Posted mar 17, 2007 1:34 am pt

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"Malcom X" was really a great film about the life of a leader of African-American civil liberties in the United States. No one else could have pulled off this role as well as Denzel Washington. Great script and great acting.

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Posted mar 16, 2007 11:14 pm pt

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You know Malcolm X never gets as much recogniziton as other African American leaders, but this movie sure depicted his life perfectly. The ideals throwned out by this movie are enough to catch your attention and never let go. Denzel delivers a...
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You know Malcolm X never gets as much recogniziton as other African American leaders, but this movie sure depicted his life perfectly. The ideals throwned out by this movie are enough to catch your attention and never let go. Denzel delivers a powerfull performance as Malcolm. I totally recommend this movie to anyone that its interested in the Civil Rights movement.

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Posted feb 15, 2007 1:14 am pt

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A great movie depicting the life an works of the famous African American leader Born Malcolm Little. This movie holds your interest no matter what walk of life you come from. Rich or poor you will be captivated by the film.

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Posted dec 27, 2006 2:06 am pt

• [+] The New York Times
  
  100
  Mr. Lee means for Malcolm X to be an epic, and it is in its concerns and its physical scope. In Denzel Washington it also has a fine actor who does for Malcolm X what Ben Kingsley did for “Gandhi.” [18 November 1992]

  by Vincent Canby | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  100
  The film is inspirational and educational - and it is also entertaining, as movies must be before they can be anything else.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  90
  A spiritually enriching testament to the human capacity for change -- and surely Spike Lee's most universally appealing film.

  by Rita Kempley | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  80
  Lee's finest, most unabashed labor of love.

  by Desson Thomson | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  80
  Lee's biography of the slain civil rights leader treats Malcolm, not as a political rallying point, but as a fully rounded individual whose life defies reduction to symbolic status.

  by Staff(not credited) | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
  67
  A mortal movie about an immortal subject and the very fact that it succeeds as well as it does is a testament to Lee's skills as a filmmaker.

  by Marjorie Baumgarten | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  60
  The picture comes up short in several departments, notably in pacing and in giving a strong sense of why this man became such a legend.

  by Staff(not credited) | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New Yorker
  
  60
  The movie is disappointingly impersonal; it doesn't provide readers of the autobiography anything like a fresh vision of its remarkable subject.

  by Terrence Rafferty | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  40
  Lee has tried hard to give this shapeless picture some visual patterning though the cluttered effect created by his mistrust of silence is even more harmful than in the past.

  by Jonathan Rosenbaum | Read Full Review »