It’s handling of racial and social issues is deft, and its attempt to parallel the injustices going on today is commendable (if not entirely successful).

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 17, 2022

With gorgeous performances from this rich cast, the ensemble functions to represent interactions of romance, comradery, transformation, and, ultimately, personhood.

| Jun 10, 2021

I wish it took some more chances, but it is solidly made.

| Sep 1, 2020

Solid, but not necessarily more than that.

| Sep 1, 2020

The 24th's relevant slice of history deserves better than the film's stale History Channel treatment.

| Aug 31, 2020

It's a film that stirs up conflicting internal emotions and digs up important questions about the way we view historical and current reactions to systemic oppression.

| Aug 27, 2020

"The 24th" means well, and while it, sadly, mostly elicits a shrug, what the film lacks in pizzaz it more than makes up for in educational value, for better or worse.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 27, 2020

A film that can seem powerful, yet still feel empty.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 26, 2020

Mixes fact with fiction to tell this powerful Jim Crow-era tale set during World War I.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 26, 2020

An important reminder of a dark chapter in American history. It is an unflinching look at grotesque bigotry toward young Black American patriots who only wanted to serve their country...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 25, 2020

A film that painfully examines an ugly chapter in American history...incredibly powerful and timely...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 25, 2020

Yet another exemplary example of persistent filmmakers of conviction stepping in to exhume a suppressed black past - where US history and the dishonest education system fear to tread. And potentially ushering in a commendable Black Renaissance in movies.

| Aug 22, 2020

In many ways, [Wilmott's] classical approach to the filmmaking leaves us vulnerable to the gut-punch of the film's climax and resolution.

| Aug 22, 2020

Throughout, The 24th accepts the humanity of all its participants -- even the villains.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 22, 2020

Worth seeing for its attempt to tell the story of how Black GI's exploded in rage after years of Jim Crow in the military but aren't there better examples of Black militancy that need a film treatment?

| Aug 21, 2020

Violent but powerful historical drama about Black soldiers.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 21, 2020

It's a grim, important tale rich with historical detail.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 21, 2020

While the harrowing second act and the tragic final minutes bring some redemption to Willmott's The 24th, the historical drama is too distracted with showing the brutality inflicted upon these men rather than their humanity.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 21, 2020

"The 24th" is a remarkable film; it's also a remarkable part of a body of work that is an all-too-hidden wonder.

| Aug 21, 2020

In The 24th, screenwriters Kevin Willmott (who also directed) and Trai Byers (who also stars) try to reckon with the violence of August 23, 1917 in Houston, Texas.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 21, 2020