Higher Learning
Following the struggles of students all over the world, who enroll in Columbus University, where they all are from different races and places. The Blacks are the only who suffer from all the students, as the abuse they receive, according to racial discrimination. But they learn many lessons.
6 June 1973, Panama City, Panama
20 May 1972, Brooklyn, New York, USA
16 October 1968, Monticello, New York, USA
2 July 1969, Chicago, Illinois, USA
12 August 1972, Cordoba, Argentina
1972
January 27, 2004
John Singleton at his most pretentious and preachy.May 12, 2001
Higher Learning is often clichéd, unfocused and didactic. But Singleton has a goal most of his contemporaries have given up on: He wants to make a movie that makes a difference.July 06, 2010
Despite some likable performances (Epps is especially winning), the drama in Higher Learning is constricted, hemmed in by Singleton's compulsion to view his characters as walking paradigms of racial and sexual politics.July 25, 2010
Singleton gets points for exposing the hypocrisy of "politically correct" institutions, but stilted dialogue and cardboard characterizations undermine the message.February 09, 2006
A stylish, intelligent film-maker, Singleton interweaves the threads of his demographic tapestry with assurance, passion and a welcome awareness of the complexities of the college community's contradictory impulses towards integration and separatism.December 06, 2005
There's some nice ideas and realistically felt characters here.February 13, 2001
Presenting problems is not the same as dramatizing them successfully, and as strong as his message is, Singleton has not found the best way to deliver it.November 03, 2005
For anyone who's been to USC, it's a pretty hilarious parody of life there. If you take it as presented, however, it's over-dramatic and unbelievable.May 20, 2003
Everyone here, from beer-swilling white fraternity boys to rap-loving black students harassed by the campus police, can be judged at face value. Everyone is exactly what he or she seems.March 23, 2005
Another tour-de-force for SingletonJuly 25, 2010
The film lapses into polarized melodrama but it's a handsome piece, displaying a fair understanding of our desperate need to belong.October 18, 2008
Higher Learning has a great many things on its mind, which immediately places it in a rather exclusive category of American films these days.