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Is That Black Enough for You?!?

2022

Documentary, Self: Margaret Avery, Harry Belafonte, Charles Burnett ...

6.9

Documentary Tracks the history of Black cinema, focused mainly on the '70s, with archival and new interviews with many of the key players from the era.

	Author	Review
United States	Dan Callahan The Wrap	"Director Elvis Mitchell and a bevy of high-profile names go deep on a decade’s worth of extraordinary movies"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"Highly pleasurable and eye-opening movie-love documentary about the American Black cinema revolution of the late ’60s and ’70s"	POS
United States	Jourdain Searles IndieWire	"Despite the expansive nature of the film, Mitchell’s narration makes it all feel personal. The documentary flows freely from topic to topic, giving it a conversational quality"	POS
United States	Ricky Valero Ready Steady Cut	"'Is That Black Enough for You?!?' is essential viewing for everyone to understand the history of Black cinema (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	John Fink The Film Stage	"A warm, wise, personal celebration of raw creative energy"	POS
United States	K. Austin Collins Rolling Stone	"What's useful about Mitchell's documentary isn't just the breadth of its history. It's its firm situation in what this means to a Black audience, specifically, to the Black psyche of the present day and the past"	POS
United States	Sarah-Tai Black Los Angeles Times	"It's a delayed, almost breathless sense of urgency that is easily forgiven considering the strength of Mitchell's commitment to a detailed and embodied historiography"	NEU
United States	Robert Daniels The Playlist	"Rather than outlining a mere monolithic presence, it displays the multifaceted distinctions of Blackness (...) [It] is more than enough, and makes you hope Mitchell gives us plenty more documentaries to come (and soon)"	POS
United States	Lovia Gyarkye The Hollywood Reporter	"[It]‘s ambition is an achievement, but such a voluminous study needs the right medium (...) The material he presents — rich, varied and incisive — is perfect fodder for a written text or, dare I say, a longer series"	POS
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"I can't fathom someone walking away from this documentary and not having a greater appreciation for the need for every voice to be heard and everyone to feel represented through art (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A tremendous study of black American cinema (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Brandon Yu The New York Times	"The work serves as a remarkable corrective on cinematic memory"	POS
United States	Andy Crump Paste Magazine	"It accomplishes a monumental task: putting these artists in conversation with each other"	POS
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"If nothing else, Mitchell's fluid, conversational doc should get a few more eyeballs on historical markers eternally in need of new champions (...) His celebration of these films is seriously entertaining (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS

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