How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company Reviews
Cinematical
A phenomenal outline of [Melvin Van Peeble's] prolific and varied life.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Film Journal International
The first film to fully encompass Van Peebles' long, varied and impressive career.
BlackFilm.com
A warts and all bio-pic which chronicles the life of a brash Renaissance Man who, frustrated by racism in America, abandoned the U.S. for France at an early age to pursue an assortment of artistic endeavors overseas.
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| Original Score: 4/4
AV Club
[Van Peebles] could surely survive a more critical and complete look at his extraordinary life and times.
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| Original Score: B-
Slant Magazine
The 72-year-old Melvin remains fascinating as an artist, self-promoter, and success story.
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| Original Score: 3/4
TV Guide's Movie Guide
... offers a solid overview of the pioneering African-American filmmaker's wide-ranging career.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Top Critic
Angio's film is an excellent introduction, but it won't be long before you realize that his subject is too complex to be contained in a single admiring tribute.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
This documentary about the pioneering black filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles is nearly as mischevious and fascinating as its subject.
Comment | Original Score: 3.5/5
Melvin Van Peebles gets the idolatrous treatment in this documentary by first-time director Joe Angio.
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| Original Score: B-
How to Eat is finally nostalgic, albeit less so for Van Peebles, who at 73 remains active on multiple artistic fronts, than for a lost era when brash individualism and radical politics seemed to go hand in hand.
