Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
- Excerpt: The origin story of how and why author Isabel Wilkinson researched her book Caste.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Ava DuVernay’s…ambitious melding of an author pursuing a thesis linking global oppression with the writer’s personal life…may be flawed, but it is unique, moving and powerful nonetheless.
- Candice Frederick @ HuffPost
- Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
- Excerpt: The book and film draw clear lines between caste and U.S. history, hopefully inspiring broader conversations about the role of race in contemporary society that can help create a potential blueprint for the future.
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: A compelling performance by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor brings Isabel Wilkerson’s odyssey to life.
- Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: It’s an ingenious approach to simultaneously educate and entertain. Some of it works better than the rest, but you cannot deny the power of the whole when [its] more lecture hall passages are put into context with the authentic human drama of the rest.
- Bev Questad @ itsjustmovies.com
- Excerpt: The genius of the film’s concept, writing about a best-selling nonfiction study from the perspective of how it was written and what was happening to its writer at the time, belongs to Ava DuVernay.
- James Wegg @ JWR
- Excerpt: It has happened here, and could again
- Sebastian Zavala @ Cinencuentro.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: It is a challenging film, which will leave its viewers considering the different questions it raises, or at least reflecting on the way they have perceived discrimination through the years. Full review in Spanish.
