Higher Learning
Crime, Drama, Romance
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1995
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Malik is an African-American student attending on a track scholarship; academics are not his strong suit, and he goes in thinking that his athletic abilities will earn him a free ride through college. Fudge, a "professional student" who has been at Columbus for six years so far, becomes friendly with Malik and challenges his views about race and politics in America.
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Rated:
R
Runtime:
127 min
Release date:
11 Jan 1995
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$38,290,723
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
Despite some likable performances (Epps is especially winning), the drama in Higher Learning is constricted, hemmed in by Singleton's compulsion to view his characters as walking paradigms of racial and sexual politics.
– Owen Gleiberman,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Jul 2010
fresh:
Higher Learning has a great many things on its mind, which immediately places it in a rather exclusive category of American films these days.
– Todd McCarthy,
Variety,
18 Oct 2008
fresh:
A stylish, intelligent film-maker, Singleton interweaves the threads of his demographic tapestry with assurance, passion and a welcome awareness of the complexities of the college community's contradictory impulses towards integration and separatism.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
rotten:
Everyone here, from beer-swilling white fraternity boys to rap-loving black students harassed by the campus police, can be judged at face value. Everyone is exactly what he or she seems.
– Janet Maslin,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
fresh:
Higher Learning is often cliched, unfocused and didactic. But Singleton has a goal most of his contemporaries have given up on: He wants to make a movie that makes a difference.
– Peter Travers,
Rolling Stone,
12 May 2001