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

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

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

Here's a blueprint for resistance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 12, 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

The group got things done, and the movie is especially compelling in its depiction of political organization in the analog age.

| Oct 15, 2020

Rare, raw gig footage, featuring the likes of The Clash and Tom Robinson, is guaranteed to get you pogo-ing in your seat.

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

A film that is as much about the power of solidarity as the dangers of intolerance. Leave the last words to Sham 69: if the kids are united they will never be divided.

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

Shah presents a highly relevant reminder of what can be achieved when people unite against the forces of division.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 20, 2020

An excellent brief documentary about a heroic grassroots political movement whose importance reveals itself more clearly in retrospect with every year that passes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 18, 2020

To her credit, the director Rubika Shah resists the temptation to editorialize. She lets the pictures, and the participants, tell the story.

| Sep 17, 2020

Wisely, Shah keep things punky and to-the-point.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 16, 2020

It's a cliché to describe a film as "essential viewing", but this really is.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 15, 2020

...brilliantly uplifting...a movement that says "no!," it appealed to me...

| Jun 25, 2020

Rubika Shah's smart, spirited feature debut is a whistle-stop tour of a DIY uprising.

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

An engaging historical story with timely contemporary echoes.

| Nov 1, 2019