Higher Learning
Struggling against enrolling in the same university of Columbus, where students all over the world, as they all have to stay together and coping with the academic and the personal life, as they have been affected deeply by racial discrimination, but the academic life learns them great lessons in how they deal with the obstacles they face.
30 July 1961, Augusta, Georgia, USA
2 July 1969, Chicago, Illinois, USA
25 November 1971, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
20 July 1972, Old Bridge, New Jersey, USA
July 24, 1975 in West Covina, California, USA
27 April 1966, San Diego, California, USA
19 December 1969, Mission Viejo, California, USA
1 January 1969, Cerritos, California, USA
16 October 1968, Monticello, New York, USA
25 November 1971
25 April 1970, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
1943
25 October 1970, Santa Monica, California, USA
25 September 1973, Gold Beach, Oregon, USA
28 August 1973, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
June 11, 1975 in Houston, Texas, USA
4 December 1973, Los Angeles, California, USA
1969, Chicago, Illinois, USA
20 August 1950, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
December 06, 2005
There's some nice ideas and realistically felt characters here.
October 18, 2008
Higher Learning has a great many things on its mind, which immediately places it in a rather exclusive category of American films these days.
February 13, 2001
Presenting problems is not the same as dramatizing them successfully, and as strong as his message is, Singleton has not found the best way to deliver it.
November 03, 2005
For anyone who's been to USC, it's a pretty hilarious parody of life there. If you take it as presented, however, it's over-dramatic and unbelievable.
July 25, 2010
The film lapses into polarized melodrama but it's a handsome piece, displaying a fair understanding of our desperate need to belong.
July 06, 2010
Despite some likable performances (Epps is especially winning), the drama in Higher Learning is constricted, hemmed in by Singleton's compulsion to view his characters as walking paradigms of racial and sexual politics.
February 09, 2006
A stylish, intelligent film-maker, Singleton interweaves the threads of his demographic tapestry with assurance, passion and a welcome awareness of the complexities of the college community's contradictory impulses towards integration and separatism.
July 25, 2010
Singleton gets points for exposing the hypocrisy of "politically correct" institutions, but stilted dialogue and cardboard characterizations undermine the message.
January 27, 2004
John Singleton at his most pretentious and preachy.
May 12, 2001
Higher Learning is often clichéd, unfocused and didactic. But Singleton has a goal most of his contemporaries have given up on: He wants to make a movie that makes a difference.
March 23, 2005
Another tour-de-force for Singleton
May 20, 2003
Everyone here, from beer-swilling white fraternity boys to rap-loving black students harassed by the campus police, can be judged at face value. Everyone is exactly what he or she seems.
