It's a dazzling achievement.

| Sep 10, 2021

The result is a collage of visuals and emotions, with anger and hope entwining.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 13, 2021

The most impressive aspect of The Inheritance is how its dense, complex weave of different narrative and rhetorical styles and visual and aural textures ends up playing as completely effortless. It's a heavy movie with a light touch.

| Jul 19, 2021

But Asili doesn't possess the abilities needed to pull this off, often playing into a blunt, didactic tone that's more in line with the formal antecedents he's cribbing from.

| Jun 6, 2021

The film is a virtuoso display of Asili's talents, as he wrote, directed, edited, did the inventive 16mm camerawork, and provided the extraordinary production design.

| Mar 26, 2021

There's a lot of creativity in the filmmaking. The problem is that these ideas and histories are never brought together into something cohesive.

| Mar 26, 2021

You'll gain some insight into the roots of Philadelphia-based activism and possibly be inspired to do some independent learning about Black-led socio-political groups.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 26, 2021

The Inheritance is a metrical, stunning piece of cinema.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 25, 2021

A worthwhile and often exhilarating examination of decades of Black intellectual and artistic tradition.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 24, 2021

Nimbly weaving together a local Philadelphia history and a Pan-Africanist, Black internationalist framework, The Inheritance is imbued with a musical agility.

| Mar 22, 2021

Definitely not everyone's cup of tea, but I so admired the playfulness of its structure.

| Mar 22, 2021

It doesn't hold your hand as it walks through this political history, but there is just such creative energy and warmth flowing throughout the movie and no small amount of humor.

| Mar 22, 2021

Raises the question of whether Maoists would've achieved more if they'd had access to antioxidant smoothies.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 19, 2021

As a collaborative effort to both engage and educate people, The Inheritance is a rare example of political activism and cinema intertwining organically and seamlessly.

| Mar 19, 2021

Asili explicitly relates his film to Jean-Luc Godard's "La Chinoise," borrowing its didactic elements and romantic moods to forge a vision of collective action and personal progress.

| Mar 15, 2021

It's hard to ding a movie that seeks to inspire revolutionary change for deviating from the norm.

| Mar 13, 2021

Asili has made an excitingly alive and innovative cinematic collage that remembers the past and embraces identity, community and equality.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 12, 2021

The levels and references to The Inheritance are potentially dizzying, but Asili's intentions provide us with the kind of sustenance rare in modern cinematic offerings.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 12, 2021

An informative, necessary portrait of Black liberation in Philadelphia.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 12, 2021

Playful, ambitious, and messy. A free-flowing torrent of past and present colliding inside the mind.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 12, 2021