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Best Black Films in 2001- A total of 36 worth buying, renting or paying full price in the theater
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Title
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Film
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Stars
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One line review
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1
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Top
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Ali
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4
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Learn about Muhammad Ali and period which he was in his prime
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2
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10
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Visit, The
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4
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Great acting by Hill Harper; story about redemption
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3
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Monster's Ball
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3.5
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Halle Berry and Billy Bob Thornton learn how to move forward
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4
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From Hell
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3.5
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Jack the Ripper never looked this good
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5
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Training Day
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4
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Denzel Washington learns how to be a bad man
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6
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O
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3.5
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Shakespeare set in high school never seemed so real
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7
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Caveman's Valentine
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3.5
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Samuel L. Jackson gets his love scene
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8
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Stanger Inside
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3.5
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A streetwise woman seeks her mother in prison
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9
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Baby Boy
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3.5
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Keeping in touch with black reality
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10
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Lumumba
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4
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Freedom is earned, never given
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11
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Near
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Apocalypse Now Redux
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4
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Find out what happens when too much is left on the cutting floor
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12
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Misses
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Along Came a Spider
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3.5
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Morgan Freeman is a joy to see act
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13
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Two can Play that Game
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3
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Comedies don't have to be stupid
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14
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Save the Last Dance
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3.5
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A new age interracial age romance
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15
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One Week
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3
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The best in black independent film
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16
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Rat Race
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3.5
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Cubs Gooding Jr. really is funny
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17
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When Brendan Met Trudy
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3.5
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How blacks are view by some in Europe
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18
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King is Alive, The
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3.5
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What people will do when the chips are all on the table
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19
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Jackpot
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3.5
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A road movie where the black guy is the manager and the singer is white
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20
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Heist
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3.5
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Delroy Lindo at his best
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Honorable
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Bones
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3
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A hip hop film starring Snoop Dogg Dogg
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Mention
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Brothers, The
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3.5
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In the style of The Best Man
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16 in
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Down to Earth
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3
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Chris Rock has a special point of view
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Alphabetical
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Dr. Dolittle 2
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3
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Eddie Murphy is the king of cuteness with an edge
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Order
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Hardball
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3
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Things you need and want to know about the inner city
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Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
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3
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Great film for cartoon lovers
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Jump Tomorrow
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3.5
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A nerd find love
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Kingdom Come
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3
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Check your brain at the door and have some fun
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Novocaine
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3.5
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Possibly the funniest movie of the year if you like twisted humor
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Ocean's Eleven
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3
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It aint' Sammy but it's still well done
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Osmosis Jones
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3
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Chris Rock is a genius in this very imaginative film for kids
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Royal Tenenbaums, The
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3.5
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Danny Glover as the thinking mans actor
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Score, The
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3.5
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Angela Bassett is America's sexist woman
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Songcatcher
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3.5
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Culture evolves from the hills of Kentucky
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Swordfish
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3
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The film that Halle needed to do to graduate to Monster's Ball
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Waking Life
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4
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A talky film that MBA's will appreciate
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