I never want to see this movie ever again. This is terrible. How dare we subject ourselves to this...

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 21, 2021

This is absolutely wild. So problematic and a mess of epic proportions...

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 21, 2021

Full Review | Original Score: C | Jan 17, 2013

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 18, 2008

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2008

... Black and White is sort of a mess, but it's the kind of worthy, ambitious mess that a director like Godard might make.

Full Review | Original Score: 87/100 | Aug 31, 2008

A daring film that has some sloppy flaws but is far better than Toback's previous effort, the dismal Two Girls and a Guy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

As lively and amusing as the film is in some ways, it does set up expectations at the outset that are never really delivered upon.

Full Review | Jun 17, 2008

While Black and White is a little chaotic and overcrowded, it offers a relentless, honest look at race and power.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 21, 2006

It looks like a mess -- if one stuffed with incident, issues and intrigue.

| Jun 24, 2006

James Toback's Black and White is meant to be an incendiary movie, but it's really only just OK.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 26, 2006

The best thing I have seen come from director Toback.

| Original Score: B | Apr 9, 2005

Mostly watchable and well-acted, but neither as engaging nor as exciting as it needs to be.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 16, 2004

While Toback certainly makes a game effort to study the infiltration of hip-hop into the mainstream, his inability to choose what ground to cover ultimately results in an episodic hotch-potch.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 13, 2004

Short bursts of captivating information are strung together in a series of quick-cutting vignettes, alternately hitting their mark and falling disastrously flat.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 14, 2003

The unfocused story travels through so many subplots that none of the individual stories are ever explored fully enough to pay off.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 8, 2002

Perhaps you remember "The Pick-Up Artist," the movie that single-handedly killed Molly Ringwald's career? That was another Toback production. "Black and White," for all its arty pretensions and supposed shock value, doesn't break his losing streak.

| Jun 21, 2002

It doesn't try to spell out all aspects of the issue or arrive at any particular point. Toback presents specific characters dealing with specific problems and, through their stories, somehow manages to take the temperature of the times.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 18, 2002

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 19, 2002

This movie doesn't provide the luxury of detachment; it forces us to sort out the confusing racial dramas of contemporary America, and it's far more involving because it has no narrator telling us what to feel.

| Jan 9, 2002