Birth of the Black Panther Party, a comic-book primer with the predictable simplifications and distortions. Some of it -- like the anti-black alliance forged between the FBI and the Mafia, against a backdrop of a billowing American flag -- can be justified on rhetorical grounds if not literal ones, and the revisiting of the late Sixties has undeniable nostalgic value: "Pigs," "Power to the people," "Free Huey," etc. The direction by Mario Van Peebles does not lack for energy, despite the dampening effect of the soft smeary color; and the script by his father Melvin doesn't lack for nerve: Eldridge Cleaver as choral leader in a chant of "Fuck Ronald Reagan!" With Kadeem Hardison, Bokeem Woodbine, Courtney B. Vance, Marcus Chong, and Joe Don Baker. (1995) — Duncan Shepherd
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