Loudmouth

Name: Loudmouth
Genre: Documentary
Released: December 9, 2022
Duration: 120 min
Rating: 59
Cast: Al Sharpton, Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, Jesse Jackson

2022

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Greenwich Entertainment | Release Date: December 9, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: Al Sharpton, Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, Jesse Jackson

Summary: It tells the story of Rev. Al Sharpton, painting an intimate portrait of a tireless warrior who has never ducked a fight in his mission to transform the status quo.

Director: Josh Alexander

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 120 min

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RogerEbert.com Nell Minow

Dec 9, 2022

This is a movie that observes Sharpton; it does not try to explain him or measure his impact. Those who are not already aware of his history may find it superficial or confusing. Read full review

Lisa Kennedy

Dec 8, 2022

As straightforward as it appears, Loudmouth also invites an engaged but necessarily judicious scrutiny. Read full review

Michael O'Sullivan

Dec 6, 2022

There is little in the film that offers insight into what makes him tick as a person. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

Dec 6, 2022

The film, at two hours, still feels padded out with recent history. I would have liked, instead, to see some other dimension of Sharpton — who he is away from the protest marches. “Loudmouth” feels highly controlled, almost overly focused on Sharpton’s political identity at the expense of everything else. Read full review

Rob Rector

Jan 5, 2023

Fascinating as it is to see the sheer drive and determination of a man who builds his persona with unwavering dedication, Loudmouth can appear somewhat hagiographical in its approach. Sharpton is too fearless for such a style and has never shied away from confronting those who are angered by his words, for, as Dr. King once said, “In order to love your enemies, you must begin by analyzing self.” Read full review

Robert Abele

Dec 29, 2022

Loudmouth is better when it operates along parallel histories of strife and battle: galling incidents that expose America’s racial fault lines, and how Sharpton’s activism affected those spaces. Read full review

Lovia Gyarkye

Dec 6, 2022

A sense of admiration and responsibility courses through the doc, an orientation that eventually curdles the narrative. Read full review

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Brent_Marchant

Feb 10, 2023

Rev. Al Sharpton is one of those figures who people either love or hate. Some say he’s a passionate advocate for civil rights, while others contend that he’s a self-promoting opportunist who’s “in the civil rights business.” Regardless of what one thinks, though, there’s general consensusRev. Al Sharpton is one of those figures who people either love or hate. Some say he’s a passionate advocate for civil rights, while others contend that he’s a self-promoting opportunist who’s “in the civil rights business.” Regardless of what one thinks, though, there’s general consensus that he’s an undeniably outspoken force, one whose candid character and personality live up to every bit of this documentary’s title. Director Josh Alexander’s profile of this often-polarizing presence seeks to present a definitive look at Sharpton’s life and work, but, unfortunately, it misses the mark in several respects. To begin with, the material is poorly organized, jumping around without a well-defined sense of direction and weighed down by an excess of narrative minutiae and incidental archive footage. (There’s quite an irony in that, too, given that Sharpton contends in one of the film’s monologues that minority concerns are often muddled in the media, a problem itself echoed in the content of this offering, much of that attributable to those aforementioned issues.) Moreover, there’s not much in the way of a backstory here, providing viewers with little meaningful insight into Sharpton the individual, his motivations, the influences that drive him and his life outside the public eye, elements that undoubtedly play an important role but that ultimately receive little more than passing attention. Consequently, by not digging deeper, the picture comes across largely as a somewhat overlong checklist of career accomplishments and a diluted examination of the more significant messages for which its principal stands. Also, without a more scrutinous analysis of the concerns of the protagonist’s critics, and with the regular inclusion of what could be seen as self-congratulatory monologues, the film tends to lean toward being a work of deftly spun, well-polished adulation. That’s not to suggest such admiration is undeserved, but, given the often-divisive nature of this highly visible public figure, its arguably one-sided presentation in this regard feels somewhat unbalanced. “Loudmouth” could have indeed been a compelling look at an iconic individual, but it instead comes across as a tribute that’s more concerned with being respectfully reverential and not offending than with providing meaningful, sincere enlightenment.… Expand

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