86
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11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100The Film StageGlenn Heath Jr.The Film StageGlenn Heath Jr.Unquestionably one of this year’s great films, The Inheritance seeks to position them both on equal planes of historical and individual experience, one invariably informing the other.
- It is didactic without losing its sense of organicism; it is radical without losing its sense of humor; it is intentional in its visual and formal design without flattening itself to the status of aesthetic image emptied of its politics. It is, in all ways, a reminder that any radical future must trust in the transformative potential of the communion between past and present.
- 90The New York TimesLovia GyarkyeThe New York TimesLovia GyarkyeThe Inheritance, Ephraim Asili’s debut feature film, beautifully abandons genre to consider questions about community, art and Black liberation.
- 90The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenThe Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenIt stands solidly on its own as a dynamic inquiry into revolutionary culture and Black identity, not to mention the challenge of living with roommates.
- 88RogerEbert.comRoxana HadadiRogerEbert.comRoxana HadadiAsili experiments with cinematic form as he considers “inheritance” as legacy, heritage, and tradition, resulting in an engrossing, challenging film that allures and confronts you in equal measure.
- 80VarietyLisa KennedyVarietyLisa KennedyBrainy, mannered, dryly amused, “The Inheritance” can appear willfully inexpert; the self-conscious acting feels both deliberate and the work of a director who hasn’t spent much time working with actors. But Asili dives confidently into big ideas — ideas as ideology, as wondrous inspiration, as both.
- 75Slant MagazinePat BrownSlant MagazinePat BrownThe film’s throwback nature is in sync with Ephraim Asili’s interest in wanting to keep the legacy of black activism alive.
- 75The A.V. ClubVikram MurthiThe A.V. ClubVikram MurthiEvery object, many of them clearly worn by use, feels hand chosen; every shade of color feels handpicked; every piece of furniture or fabric feels specific to that room. Asili’s controlled design doesn’t render The Inheritance sterile. Instead, it swells with free-wheeling creativity and Black pride.
- 75Vanity FairCassie da CostaVanity FairCassie da CostaBlackness isn’t a fixed identity or static community—it’s ever shifting, retracting, then proliferating, coming in and out of communion with itself. The Black radical tradition, specifically, says that by bridging past and present, such chaos can organize and revolutionize itself. The Inheritance stages an encouraging attempt at re-invention.