James Baldwin (Actor)

Reviews of James Baldwin Movies

Looking for reviews of James Baldwin movies? Cinafilm has a total of 406 reviews across 5 movies.

Movies starring James Baldwin have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 72%.

I Am Not Your Negro - released in 2017 - is James Baldwin's highest rated movie, with a score of 77% based on 321 reviews.

The lowest rated film from James Baldwin is Madonna: Madame X - released in 2021 - with a score of 64% based on 37 reviews.

Actor Biography

James Arthur Baldwin was an African-American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son, explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America, and their inevitable if unnameable tensions.

James Baldwin has acted in films with Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Ray Charles and Dick Cavett.

James Baldwin has worked with these film directors: Martin Scorsese, Sam Pollard, Raoul Peck and Melissa Haizlip.