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Malcolm X
Directed by
Spike Lee
PG-13
1992
3h 22m
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Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam and his eventual assassination.
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Cast of Malcolm X
Denzel Washington
Malcolm X
Angela Bassett
Betty Shabazz
Albert Hall
Baines
Al Freeman Jr.
Elijah Muhammad
Delroy Lindo
West Indian Archie
Spike Lee
Shorty / Director / Screenplay / Producer
Theresa Randle
Laura
Kate Vernon
Sophia
Lonette McKee
Louise Little
Tommy Hollis
Earl Little
James McDaniel
Brother Earl
Ernest Lee Thomas
Sidney
Jean-Claude La Marre
Benjamin 2X
O.L. Duke
Pete
Larry McCoy
Sammy
Maurice Sneed
Cadillac
Debi Mazar
Peg
Phyllis Yvonne Stickney
Honey
Scot Anthony Robinson
Daniel
Sonny Jim Gaines
Cholly
Malcolm X Ratings & Reviews
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Bob Longino
The movie is long -- 202 minutes -- but Lee earns every tick of the clock, illuminating the many developmental moments in Malcolm X's personality.
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
Washington's commanding central performance and the intensity with which the story is told make the film feel both brisk and invigorating, challenging our notions of history and what it means to be black in America, then and now.
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
In Malcolm X, Denzel Washington delivered the best lead male performance of the 1990s.
InSession Film
Brian Susbielles
Only a director like Lee could have produced this saga and feature a strong supporting cast with Delroy Lindo, Angela Bassett, Albert Hall, and a slew of cameos.
Filmmaker Magazine
Vadim Rizov
Righteously confrontational though Lee's film can be regarding the historical record, there's an embedded idea that collective examination of past history can help us think through the present and lance lasting pathologies.
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Sean Axmaker
Spike, never shy about courting and confronting controversy, directly engages with the leader's initial commitment to armed resistance, his conflict with the Nation of Islam, and his philosophical differences with Martin Luther King...
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Jeff Beck
Spike Lee's Malcolm X is a curiously conventional biopic of an extraordinary individual, dutifully laying out his life story, but ultimately saying little about the man himself.
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Spike Lee has made a disappointingly conventional and sluggish film in Malcolm X.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
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.
Newsweek
David Ansen
Lee and company have performed a powerful service: they have brought Malcolm X very much to life again, both as man and myth.
TIME Magazine
Richard Corliss
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.
Slant Magazine
Eric Henderson
Finds Lee's tendencies towards gadflyish social outrage folded into the fabric of the typically reactionary biopic genre.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
An ambitious, tough, seriously considered biographical film that, with honor, eludes easy characterization.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
This is an extraordinary life, and Spike Lee has told it in an extraordinary film.
Associated Press
Dolores Barclay
Lee's movie, despite good intentions, does not inspire any visceral realities. It simply is too superficial, too theatrically poised without the hard-edge that could have made it a masterpiece.
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
A spiritually enriching testament to the human capacity for change -- and surely Spike Lee's most universally appealing film.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Though at times it borders on the hagiographic, Malcolm X is remarkably faithful to the essence of the man -- his anger, his sly wit, his perpetual growth.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Lee has chosen a big subject and, with his quirky talent, has done it superb justice.
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