The music of the film is the music of this movement, and Red Saunders managed to draw around his idea artists of like mind.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 17, 2022

The film hammers home the scope of the problem...

| Nov 8, 2021

White Riot is a wild ride, a timely but never preachy reminder that Black lives mattering is not a new fight for those in the music industry.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 24, 2021

Delivers a vital history lesson on a crucial piece of activism - as well as a reminder that inflammatory rhetoric always demands a response.

| Mar 23, 2021

The film is a reminder as to how deeply entrenched are the roots of fascism, and not only in Britain.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 20, 2021

Compact and comprehensive, edifying and enormously entertaining, full of great music, bad language and knockout footage...a steaming hot slice of 1970s history and a clarion call about the unrest now unfurling across countries that should know better.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 19, 2021

The film is highly entertaining, suitably chaotic and unpredictable, but with a clear purpose -- to show that RAR made a difference.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 18, 2021

It's a tribute to the fire and ferment of Rock Against Racism, and to Shah's infectious passion for her subject, that White Riot feels at least half an hour too short.

| Feb 12, 2021

'White Riot' uses archive footage and stills brilliantly. It dispenses with expositional voiceover and clocks in at a lean 80 mins. But all of that pales beside its central message.

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

We're reminded how much passion and verve went into the period's activism, and the film's style has a similar rough energy.

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

Racism and rise of neo-fascism are still with us but White Riot reminds the viewer that resistance not only comes in many forms but that fighting the good fight is never out of date.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 29, 2021

White Riot shows the power in standing together and fighting against the worst of humanity.

| Nov 12, 2020

Here's a blueprint for resistance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 12, 2020

A wonderful retrospective on Rock Against Racism.

| Oct 28, 2020

In an America saddled with an anti-immigrant president who refuses to denounce white supremacist organizations like the Proud Boys, White Riot is a timely history lesson.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 23, 2020

Great footage and a great early look at The Clash on the verge of stardom (so good live). Given where we are, it's also a bit of the past commenting on the now.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 22, 2020

Superb, and sadly relevant-to-our-time...

| Oct 22, 2020

I think we need the RAR [Rock Against Racism] folks and their philosophy here, in the US, and now.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 19, 2020

It's a little scattershot, trying to wrap its arms around too big of a story for its first half, but then it finds its footing and has a lot of great stories to tell.

| Oct 19, 2020

I would have preferred that it were were a little more focused and a lot tighter, but [it has] interesting information and is worth seeing.

| Oct 19, 2020