Malcolm X
Malcolm x was a controversial black activist and Muslim leader who became black just for the freedom and liberation of black man in his time.
16 March 1964
27 November 1956, Mitchell Field Air Force Base, East Meadow, Long Island, New York, USA
26 April 1958, Copenhagen, Denmark
6 May 1931, Westfield, Alabama, USA
23 August 1955, New York City, New York, USA
1945, New York, New York, USA
22 July 1954, Detroit, Michigan, USA
28 September 1950, Schenectady, New York, USA
1960
20 July 1944, Los Angeles, California, USA
1962
1954
January 02, 2011
Insightful and well-rounded portrait of Malcolm X.
January 06, 2010
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.
May 20, 2003
An ambitious, tough, seriously considered biographical film that, with honor, eludes easy characterization.
January 06, 2010
Lee's film suffers from message over substance and is slightly tedious as a result.
June 04, 2012
Spike 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]
January 06, 2010
Spike Lee has made a disappointingly conventional and sluggish film in Malcolm X.
October 18, 2008
Lee and company have performed a powerful service: they have brought Malcolm X very much to life again, both as man and myth.
March 04, 2011
The perfect combination of epic and personal, intimate and spectacular.
December 25, 2006
Lamoclm X may seem conventional by Spike Lee's standards, but as a biopic of a controversial historical figure, it's superior to the nobility of spirit of a movie like Gandhi, for example, and Attenborough's high-mindedness.
February 09, 2006
It plays surprisingly safe as a solidly crafted trawl through the didactic/hagiographic conventions of the mainstream biopic.
September 23, 2008
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.
September 23, 2008
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.
