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- 2015
- The Criterion Channel
- 1 h
- 2015
- The Criterion Channel
- 1 h
Summary The summer of 2014. A look at the people around 125th Street and Lexington Avenue in East Harlem.
- 2015
- The Criterion Channel
- 1 h
- 2015
- The Criterion Channel
- 1 h
Field Niggas
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Summary The summer of 2014. A look at the people around 125th Street and Lexington Avenue in East Harlem.
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
83
100% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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While the movie’s multiple images are never less than numinous, and its rhythms sometimes skirt the strangely seductive, this astonishing movie is the opposite of hypnotic.
An intimate movie with a metaphysical grandeur, a detailed local inquiry that displays the crushing power of societal forces as well as the passion and vitality of those who endure.
Allah, a street photographer of deserved renown, has achieved something here beyond the familiar documentary impulse to show us the people who live on the streets. His immersive, unsettling techniques dig at a sense of what it might feel like to be among them.
This movie is foremost an ethnographic exercise, and whether it is a rallying cry or poverty porn is for the viewer to decide.
Intimate, singular, and hallucinatory on all aesthetic levels, the film strips politics down to the bone, not always successful but never opportunistic.
As a poetic dispatch from society's lower depths, Field Niggas is an oblique but inescapably topical slice of slick but rough-edged humanism — a polyphonic roundelay that hits some powerfully discordant notes before the director decides to start tooting his own horn.
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Awards
AFI Fest
• 1 Nomination
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 1 Nomination