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Nothing But a Man Reviews
Nothing But a Man is about battling discrimination on an uneven playing field but also about tenaciously preserving friendships and families.
| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 5, 2024
masterful in its subtle drama and commitment to a neorealist-style depiction of lived reality
| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 27, 2024
The film inherits a lot of its texture and pacing from Italian neorealism, approaching its setting honestly, realistically, and recognizably.
| Feb 20, 2024
Nothing but a Man is a fine film -- a first one that sets a towering standard for its makers.
| Aug 15, 2022
Nothing But a Man should be seen by all... It may increase understanding and diminish hatred where it exists.
| Mar 29, 2022
Ivan Dixon and Abbey Lincoln star in the moving story... What is more, it's enhanced by popular music of Berry Gordy's Motown artists.
| Jan 31, 2022
Nothing But a Man is an important film.
| Jan 31, 2022
It is precisely this feeling of calm that makes it such a totally credible, fine and true picture.
| Jan 31, 2022
The film never strikes a false note in word or deed. The dialogue is laconic and true. The characters are flesh-and-blood people who touch the heart. The drama unfolds naturally, giving the viewer the feeling he is observing events in real life.
| Jan 31, 2022
It is a powerful and moving film, despite one or two dramatic flaws.
| Jan 31, 2022
Nothing But a Man is a great movie. It has a universal story. It is superbly acted. It keeps to a point of view, something rare in American film making.
| Jan 31, 2022
Nothing But a Man is a minor masterpiece and one of the most important American movies in recent years.
| Jan 31, 2022
It is a work of art.
| Jan 31, 2022
It doesn't oversimplify, prettify or preach, Shot in near-documentary style, it presents Ivan and Abbey as thoroughly individual, human beings.
| Jan 31, 2022
Director Michael Roemer and his co-writer, Robert Young, strip down even the dialogue to its essence, rarely using a sentence when a phrase will do.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 31, 2022
Nothing But a Man moves slowly and quietly toward its climax with a rare grace. But then, it's a rare film, and a vitally important chapter in the maturing of American film.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 31, 2022
Its final embrace of optimism and hope for the future is its strongest virtue.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 31, 2022
While the film could likely be made today without the threat of violence, its honest, sensitive and insightful depiction of black life in America is still without comparison. It's also an indictment of America's institutional racism, both then and now.
| Jan 31, 2022
Young's camera lingers on each scene, evoking the timelessness that used to be characteristic of small-town life, and director Roemer uses fadeouts to add to the unhurried air, avoiding quick cuts from scene to scene.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 31, 2022
Throughout, the acting is brilliant, and in the main roles Ivan Dixon and Abbey Lincoln give the sure and richly imagined performances that movie stars no longer understand.
| Jan 31, 2022