Storyline
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.
Directors
Cast
Wendell Pierce, Christopher Plummer, Roger Guenveur Smith, Ernest Lee Thomas, Denzel Washington, Leland Gantt, Angela Bassett, Karen Allen, Mary Alice, Delroy Lindo, Debi Mazar, Michael Imperioli, Sharon Washington, Spike Lee, Theresa Randle, Craig Wasson, Martin Donovan, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Veronica Webb, Leonard L. Thomas, Giancarlo Esposito, Albert Hall, Karen Duffy, Peter Boyle, John Sayles, Nelson Mandela, David Patrick Kelly, Steven Randazzo, Lonette McKee, Larry McCoy, Kate Vernon, Al Freeman, Jr., Tommy Hollis, James McDaniel, Jean-Claude La Marre, Maurice Sneed, Phyllis Yvonne Stickney, Scot Anthony Robinson, Sonny Jim Gaines, Joe Seneca, Michael Guess, Graham Brown, Gerica Cox, Kristan Rai Segure, Lauren Padick, Danielle Fletcher, Robinson Frank Adu, Aleta Mitchell, Curt Williams, John Ottavino, John Reidy, Frances Foster, Reggie Montgomery, Gary L. Catus, Shirley Stoler, Oran 'Juice' Jones, Ricky Gordon, George Lee Miles, Raye Dowell, Abdul Salaam El Razzac, Keith Randolph Smith, George Guidall, James L. Swain, Peewee Love, Lawrence James, Steve White, K. Smith, Christopher Rubin, Steve Stapenhorst, O.L. Duke, Keith Thomas, Howard Johnson
Trailer
Reviews
100
The New York Times
Mr. Lee means for Malcolm X to be an epic, and it is in its concerns and its physical scope. In Denzel Washington it also has a fine actor who does for Malcolm X what Ben Kingsley did for “Gandhi.” [18 November 1992]
100
Chicago Sun-Times
The film is inspirational and educational - and it is also entertaining, as movies must be before they can be anything else.
90
A spiritually enriching testament to the human capacity for change -- and surely Spike Lee's most universally appealing film.
80
Lee's finest, most unabashed labor of love.
80
Lee's biography of the slain civil rights leader treats Malcolm, not as a political rallying point, but as a fully rounded individual whose life defies reduction to symbolic status.
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