Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary (2013)
Average Rating: 5.8/10
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Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 7
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Before he was convicted of murdering a policeman in 1981 and sentenced to die, Mumia Abu-Jamal was a gifted journalist and brilliant writer. Now after more than 30 years in prison and despite attempts to silence him, Mumia is not only still alive but continuing to report, educate, provoke and inspire. (c) First Run
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Lorin Becker
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Martha Boles
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Vanessa Born
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Rick Burns
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Myles Cranford
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Elija Hall
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DaJuan Johnson
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Howard McNair
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Christina Moses
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Marques Ray
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Eartha Robinson
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Rachel Robinson
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Halima Scott
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Tejah Signori
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Pranidhi Varshney
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All Critics (13) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (7)
Director Stephen Vittoria lines up a roster of writers and educators, actors and activists, to sing Abu-Jamal's praise. And praise they do.
Top CriticA film that would let us decide the pros and cons of his life for ourselves would certainly be welcome.
"Mumia" gradually becomes a persuasive attempt to celebrate the content of his character, not the violence that apparently led to his imprisonment.
Vittoria avoids discussing the crime for which Abu-Jamal spent 29 years in solitary confinement on death row, instead tracing the path of a brilliant journalist whose message cannot be silenced.
The doc is unapologetically one-sided, and spends more time canonizing Abu-Jamal than exploring the murder and trial themselves.
This film is certainly a bracing change from the usual back-and-forth of the evening news.
This tiresome documentary on activist journalist and convicted murderer Mumia Abu-Jamal buries its subject under waves of gratingly repetitive accolades.
A documentary charting the extraordinary life and work of Mumia Abu-Jamal from his prison cell over the last 30 years.
Purports to tell the true story of the titular imprisoned, controversially outspoken death-penalty opponent, but eventually degenerates into an orgy of congratulation.
A reverential biopic that wisely leaves the damning evidence on the back burner in favor of focusing on everything about Mumia Abu-Jamal except what exactly transpired at the corner of 13th and Locust in the wee hours of December 9, 1981.
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- Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary (DE)
- Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary (UK)
In general terms, "Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary" refreshingly does not shy away from radical politics, instead embracing them wholeheartedly in discussing the racism and by proxy the prison industrial complex in the United States, with a focus on the MOVE organization in Philadelphia. However, we have all been to the lecture on the corporatization in media. Even then, hearing Cornel West saying that Kenny G. is to John Coltrane, as Oprah Winfrey is to Mumia Abu Jamal is priceless.