
Biograpical epic of Malcolm X, the legendary African American leader. Born Malcolm Little, his father (a Garveyite Baptist minister) was killed by the Ku Klux Klan. Malcolm became a gangster, and while in jail discovered the Nation of Islam writings of Elijah Muhammad. He preaches the teachings when let out of jail, but later on goes on a pilgrimage to the city of Mecca, there he converts to the original Islamic religion and becomes a Sunni Muslim and changes his name to El-H... (Full plot summary below)
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Biograpical epic of Malcolm X, the legendary African American leader. Born Malcolm Little, his father (a Garveyite Baptist minister) was killed by the Ku Klux Klan. Malcolm became a gangster, and while in jail discovered the Nation of Islam writings of Elijah Muhammad. He preaches the teachings when let out of jail, but later on goes on a pilgrimage to the city of Mecca, there he converts to the original Islamic religion and becomes a Sunni Muslim and changes his name to El-Hajj Malik Al-Shabazz. He is assassinated on February 21, 1965 and dies a Muslim martyr.
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| Flipside Movie EmporiumRob VauxUnfocused and too long by half, but Washington's performance is hypnotic. |
| Apollo GuideBrian WebsterDenzel Washington becomes Malcolm X. He delivers speeches the way we imagine Malcolm delivering them. |
| Kansas City KansanSteve CrumControversial, compelling story...Spike Lee in good form. |
| Matinee MagazineChuck RudolphDenzel Washington commands the screen and Spike Lee commands the medium, but the film wears out its welcome by the halfway mark. |
| LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenWashington has never been better, capturing the greatly varied phases of Malcolm’s personality while always giving us a full sense of a single man: sharp, smart, with a quick smile but also a simmering, righteous anger. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonThe perfect combination of epic and personal, intimate and spectacular. |
| Groucho ReviewsPeter CanaveseSpike Lee called 1992's Malcolm X "the picture I was born to make," and star Denzel Washington referred to the titular civil-rights leader as "the role of a lifetime." They're both right...[Blu-ray] |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanWith Malcolm X, Lee has created a galvanizing political tragedy, the story of a leader who, through his very perception and daring, recognized that death — and only death — would be his final evolution. |
| The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe film is inspirational and educational - and it is also entertaining, as movies must be before they can be anything else. |
| The SpectatorVanessa LettsThere is too much of a painting-by-numbers, biopic feel to the way the story is unfolded for us. |