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

The Inheritance is a metrical, stunning piece of cinema.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 25, 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

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

An informative, necessary portrait of Black liberation in Philadelphia.

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

Asili experiments with cinematic form as he considers 'inheritance' as legacy, heritage, and tradition, resulting in an engrossing, challenging film that allures and confronts you in equal measure.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 12, 2021

"The Inheritance," in this sense and in many others, is a natural realization of many of filmmaker Asili's ongoing stylistic and thematic occupations.

| Mar 12, 2021

The Inheritance eventually takes on another metaphorical meaning: It's about the beliefs we pass down, via words and actions, in the continuing fight against systematic oppression.

| Original Score: B | Mar 12, 2021

A dynamic inquiry into revolutionary culture and Black identity, not to mention the challenge of living with roommates.

| Mar 11, 2021

Asili dives confidently into big ideas - ideas as ideology, as wondrous inspiration, as both.

| Mar 11, 2021

"The Inheritance," Ephraim Asili's debut feature film, beautifully abandons genre to consider questions about community, art and Black liberation.

| Mar 11, 2021