Based on newly declassified files, Sam Pollard's resonant film explores the US government's surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It’s sickening stuff, made all the more unpleasant by the seedy motivations of Hoover, whose seething sexual jealousy of King and Black men in general is horribly obvious in his anti-Civil Rights Movement missives.| Read in full: MLK/FBI film review We Love Cinema
By reframing King’s story from the government’s perspective, Pollard is able to rectify the liberal lie that the civil right leader was always beloved.Little White Lies
It certainly gives us a queasily detailed picture of Hoover’s pure paranoid nastiness.The Guardian
Pollard doesn’t try to refute King’s personal failings, but walks a delicate line between acknowledging these claims and showing exactly how Hoover attempted to exploit them through racist ideas about Black male sexuality.IndieWire
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