Movie reviews

for Civil Rights

Richard Lewis

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Originally published January 24, 2023

In the 1950s and 60s, people of color fought for civil rights, and many people still act racist toward those people. Events from that time period and many more have been made, and here are those reviews.

HIDDEN FIGURES

IMDb rating - 7.8/10

Rotten Tomatoes critic rating - 93%

Rotten Tomatoes audience rating - 93%

MBMS Student rating - 3.9/5

Three African-American women work at NASA and one of them, Katherine Johnson, gets assigned to the Space Task Force. She starts working and calculates trajectories because of her insane mathematical abilities.

RUBY BRIDGES

IMDb rating - 7.1/10

RT critic rating - 83%

RT audience rating 86%

MBMS Student rating - 3.45/5

Based on the true story of Ruby Bridges, she gets put in an all-white school and sees the true ugliness of racism.

THE BUTLER

IMDB rating - 7.2/10

RT critic rating - 71%

RT audience rating - 78%

MBMS students rating - 3.30/5

A black man named Cecil Gaines works at the White House as a butler, while his son fights for civil rights, causing their relationship to strain.

SELMA

IMDb rating - 7.5/10

RT critic rating - 99%

RT audience rating - 86%

MBMS student rating - 3.24/5

Based on the true story of Martin Luther King Jr.'s life, it is a chronicle of MLK Jr.'s activism for civil rights through the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

JUST MERcy

IMDb rating - 7.6/10

RT critic rating - 85%

RT audience rating - 99%

MBMS student rating - 3.5/5

Civil rights defense lawyer Bryan Stevenson works to defend Walter Mcmillian, an innocent man who was wrongfully convicted of murdering a young woman.

Martin Luther King Jr., a civil rights legend, at one of his many speeches. The 2014 movie, "Selma" was about his activism for civil rights, and his march from Slema to Montgomery, Alabama. IMAGE COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS.

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