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Film · 1992 · Biographical drama
Malcolm X
Directed by Spike Lee
1992
★ 6.9 editorial score
Denzel Washington disappears so completely that people forget they are watching a performance: Lee fought the studio for the length, the budget and the ending he wanted.
“Spike Lee's "Malcolm X" is one of the great screen biographies, celebrating the whole sweep of an American life that began in sorrow and bottomed out on the streets and in prison before its hero reinvented himself. Watching the film, I understood more clearly how we do have the power to change our own lives, how fate doesn't deal all of the cards. The film is inspirational and educational - and it is also entertaining.”
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