MLK/FBI
critic Reviews
, 99% Certified Fresh Tomatometer Score- MLK/FBI presents a sobering overview of the American intelligence community's efforts to discredit and destroy a leader of the civil rights movement.
- , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreAmon WarmannEmpire Magazine
An eye-opening documentary that poses hard questions and gives no easy answers, MLK/FBI is a worthy addition to the ever-timely media concerning Martin Luther King Jr.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreLeonard Maltinleonardmaltin.com
I don't know that MLK/FBI reveals anything new about its subject, but it clarifies & amplifies facets of his story in a timely way. It couldn't be more relevant, as a document of history or as a cautionary tale about balancing a public & private existence
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreK. Austin CollinsRolling Stone
What are we going to do with the material itself? It's a question whose answers remain to be seen. The accomplishment of Pollard's documentary is that it so capably and persuasively prepares us to ask it.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreSimran HansObserver (UK)
Cleverly uses the FBI's pursuit of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr to tell the entwined history of leftwing protest and state-sanctioned surveillance.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreClaudia PuigFilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
I think it really shows the importance of King as a person, as a human, as opposed to the icon that we have come to think of him as.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreAmy NicholsonFilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
This documentary is a really necessary rewind... to remind everybody how Martin Luther King Jr. was seen in his day, at his time.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreRobert Greene IIThe Nation
King's tortured relationship with the FBI is the subject of the new documentary MLK/FBI. Directed by Sam Pollard, it offers a comprehensive overview of how the FBI targeted King during his years of activism.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreJordan RuimyWorld of Reel
Feels unfinished and leaves you wanting more
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreTom MeekCambridge Day
The film doesn't so much champion King as it does examine the challenges he had to overcome to ignite a movement.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreMichael CalleriNiagara Gazette
Using rich black-and-white archival footage and calling upon the detailed insights of historians and experts in social justice, among others, [Director] Pollard and his team take the controversial story and make it fresh and fascinating.
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