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    Malcolm X (1992)

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    Street hustler Malcolm Little converts to Islam while in prison, changes his name to Malcolm X and rises to fame as spokesman for the Nation of Islam. But his controversial statements on race relations make him powerful enemies.

    To describe a film as “worthy” is to damn it with faint praise. But, as much as one admires the ambition of this biographical drama from Spike Lee, it is surprisingly conventional and, at times, downright dull: one longs for the hectoring quality of Lee’s other pictures and, indeed, Lee’s public interviews.

    Instead, we have reams and reams of speeches, and Denzel Washington as the black militant leader of the 1960s (the fire to Martin Luther King‘s water) copes with them as best he can.

    Washington looks impressive and he has undoubted charisma, like Malcolm X himself, but he’s stuck in a huge, flipside national epic that lumbers on through the decades, continents and events for more than three hours.

    Perhaps Lee was subdued by the big-budget, by the need for a white audience as well as a black one; perhaps, too, he was overawed by his subject. But this picture, as interesting as it is, fades beside the contentious brilliance of Oliver Stone’s JFK (1991) and Nixon (1996).

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    Betty Shabazz
    Angela Bassett
    Baines
    Albert Hall
    Elijah Muhammad
    Al Freeman Jr
    West Indian Archie
    Delroy Lindo
    Shorty
    Spike Lee
    Laura
    Theresa Randle
    Sophia
    Kate Vernon
    Louise Little
    Lonette McKee
    Earl Little
    Tommy Hollis
    Brother Earl
    James McDaniel
    Sidney
    Ernest Thomas
    Benjamin 2X
    Jean Lamarre
    Pete
    O L Duke
    Sammy
    Larry McCoy
    Cadillac
    Maurice Sneed
    Peg
    Debi Mazar
    Honey
    Phyllis Yvonne Stickney
    Daniel
    Scot Anthony Robinson
    Cholly
    James E Gaines

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