Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
- Excerpt: A sweeping biofilm about the immensely creative Black choreographer and dancer.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Even though we get little on Ailey’s personal life, Wilmot has found enough to reflect it in his work
- Marilyn Ferdinand @ Alliance of Women Film Journalists
- Excerpt: Jamila Wignot has such command of her art that she has been able to make a documentary in such sympathy with its subject, Alvin Ailey, that we feel as though we understand him from the inside out.
- Candice Frederick @ TheGrio
- [New] | Mark Leeper @ Mark Leeper’s Reviews
- Excerpt: AILEY is, not surprisingly, a documentary about Alvin Ailey, but also a documentary about creating a dance that celebrated his life.
- Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: The love everyone involved still has for him twenty-five-plus years later is obvious and inspiring, but is there more to him waiting to be unearthed? Probably.
