Malcolm X PG-13

Malcolm X
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DVD Details

  • Rated: PG-13
  • Run Time: 3 hours, 21 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: February 2, 2010
  • Originally Released: 1992
  • Label: Warner Home Video

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 56,839
...Washington's great performance dominates....MALCOLM X conveys its subject's magnetism and lifelong evolution, while forever synergizing its lead performer and his role... -- 4 out of 4 stars
USA Today
Nov 18, 1992
Spike Lee has made a disappointingly conventional and sluggish film in Malcolm X.
Variety
Jan 6, 2010
An ambitious, tough, seriously considered biographical film that, with honor, eludes easy characterization.
New York Times
May 20, 2003
...In a time when political currents are moving quickly, Lee is one of the few American filmmakers with the clout and the will to make a controversial film like this...
Chicago Sun-Times
Dec 27, 1992
Lee sketches Malcolm's life colorfully, if by the numbers. But he falls victim to the danger of movie biography: he elevates Malcolm's importance until the vital historical context is obscured. Full Review
TIME Magazine
Sep 23, 2008
The perfect combination of epic and personal, intimate and spectacular. Full Review
Combustible Celluloid
Mar 4, 2011
Benefits from a lively lead performance by the miscast Denzel Washington but doesn't come within light years of the book, one of the greatest American autobiographies. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Jan 6, 2010

Product Description:

Spike Lee brings the life of African-American leader Malcolm X (an intense Denzel Washington in an Oscar-nominated performance) to the big screen in this sprawling, epic biographical drama. Born Malcolm Little, son of a Nebraska preacher, on May 19, 1925, he became one of the most militant leaders and charismatic spokesmen of the black liberation movement before his assassination at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City on February 21, 1965. The film sweeps through his early life as a small-time hustler and thief with his friend Shorty (Lee), his conversion to Islam in jail, and his subsequent life as a controversial spiritual leader and husband of Betty Shabazz (Angela Bassett). Malcolm's tragic assassination is presented as a conspiracy of Nation of Islam leaders; the film shows how his philosophy has been realized in the lives of others who have been moved by his words. Filmed with great visual flair by Lee, the film is a work of entertainment as much as it is a historical artifact. Washington captures the spiritual conversion of the hero with a sincerity that is entirely as believable and ultimately moving as it was in the book that inspired the film, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X.

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  • Sales Rank: 16,732
  • UPC: 883929135950
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