American Promise

Ben Kenigsberg

Ultimately, American Promise seems split between a personal perspective and a broader one. Its a bold experiment thats also a textbook case of filmmakers being too close to their material. ( Read More )

Godfrey Cheshire

While they didnt set out to make a film about what newspaper columnists refer to as the black male achievement gap, Brewster and Stephenson have done just that, and its hard to imagine a more penetrating and powerful one. ( Read More )

Geoff Berkshire

An intimate look at what its like to be young, black and male in a largely white private school. ( Read More )

In a more than slightly loaded point, the film even proposes that diversity doesnt necessarily aid education.) ( Read More )

Kevin Jagernauth

...what this documentary perhaps concludes is that the American Promise lies not in the endless opportunities the country offers, but in the pact parents make with their children, to support them in whatever opportunity they happen to seize. ( Read More )