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Malcolm X (Blu-ray)
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 3 hours, 21 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 11, 1999
- Originally Released: 1992
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Denzel Washington | |
Performer: | Spike Lee, Al Freeman, Jr., Delroy Lindo, Albert Hall, Theresa Randle, Kate Vernon, Angela Bassett, Brendan Kelly & David Patrick Kelly | |
Directed by | Spike Lee |
Entertainment Reviews:
The perfect combination of epic and personal, intimate and spectacular.
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Combustible Celluloid
There is too much of a painting-by-numbers, biopic feel to the way the story is unfolded for us.
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The Spectator
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.
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TIME Magazine
...Triumphant....Denzel Washington gives the performance of the year...
Rolling Stone
Visually and dramatically, Lee pulls out all the stops, but it's Washington's performance that really energizes the film, and he's an exhilarating presence throughout.
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Film4
Rating: 5/5 --
Insightful and well-rounded portrait of Malcolm X.
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Common Sense Media
...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
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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