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The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 Review

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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 4.0
    73

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Generally favorable reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 70

    out of 100

    Variety

    Like any mixtape, it offers some truly transcendent moments alongside a smattering of filler, and never quite assembles its pieces into a cohesive whole.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    The New York Times A.O. Scott

    The fact that the speakers' faces are never seen produces a feeling of estrangement that is crucial to the film's effectiveness. You become acutely aware of gaps and discontinuities: between slogans and realities, between political ideals and stubborn social problems, between then and now.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

    Black Power Mixtape's contemporary audio, though it tries hard to involve us, can't hold a candle to this kind of footage. But if having these current voices on board helped get the luminous glimpses of the past back on the screen, we owe them a vote of thanks.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter James Greenberg

    This is a film that should be seen by anyone who wants to learn where we've come from as a nation.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    Village Voice J. Hoberman

    Black nationalism lives and breathes in this remarkably fresh documentary - a standout in last spring's New Directors/New Films - assembled by Göran Hugo Olsson.

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  • 83

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

    A tangy raw stew of history, even if it never begins to confront the contradictions that bedeviled black militancy.

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