MLK/FBI

| Release Date: January 15, 2021

5.9	USER SCORE Mixed or average reviews based on 26 Ratings

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jhomer609Jan 19, 2021

MLK/FBI (2021) has been praised by many, but one has to question the motives behind it. The fact that the director, Sam Pollard, is Black and has done terrific work previously does not change the fact that he was taken for a ride here and isMLK/FBI (2021) has been praised by many, but one has to question the motives behind it. The fact that the director, Sam Pollard, is Black and has done terrific work previously does not change the fact that he was taken for a ride here and is complicit in an unnecessary take-down of a great man. This take-down was initiated by historian David Garrow, with his 2019 article (for the conservative British magazine Standpoint) calling MLK a "sexual libertine". Garrow has also been derided for his vicious take-down of President Obama in his 2017 book Rising Star. Other historians call the FBI evidence "very flimsy" and speculative and say we should be "deeply suspicious". Do we see filmmakers rushing to make similar smearing movies about JFK or FDR, who also had mistresses? No. So then, why this fascination with salacious, defamatory material on great Black men? Why have A.O. Scott and other prominent reviewers not recognized the fact that this film is ultimately a confused smear piece? I will not comment on the film technically, although I find it deficient in this respect, as well. This film may be revealing but it is also repugnant, and (like a Leni Riefenstahl Fascist film festival) should be avoided.… Expand

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