60
More often than not, these musical interludes are more like distractions aimed only to entice younger audiences (not a terrible thing).
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
75
Washington Post by Ann Hornaday
Through vivid archival material and voice-overs, the filmmakers create moving vignettes that, taken together, form a fascinating primer on nonviolence as a political force and discipline.
60
Even if you’ve seen this footage of the sit-ins at Southern diners, the Selma-to-Montgomery marches and Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral before, you can’t help but be moved to your core.
60
The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
Perhaps best suited for younger audiences, who will be more receptive to a vital history lesson only if it's given a music video-style treatment.
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Jennie Punter
With young audiences definitely in mind, the film puts a fresh spin on the issues and struggles of the civil-rights movement.
63
The film is primarily interested in the music that accompanied this turmoil, which is a bit like covering the American Revolution with the focus on the wigs Washington and Jefferson wore.
63
The music is the occasion, and it’s stirring. What linger, though, are the images — and the ideals and emotions they convey.
80
New Orleans Times-Picayune by Mike Scott
Songs such as "We Shall Overcome," "Wade in the Water" and "This Little Light of Mine" are powerful to begin with. Listening to them, music-video-style, over footage shot during the era, however, elevates them.