Higher Learning

Pros: Great acting; intriguing storyline; innovative direction and camerawork
Cons: Overly preachy at times

There are several possible ways to interpret John Singleton's Higher Learning: as one of the most articulate and unguarded portrayals of racism ever captured on film; as an entertaining but inarguably lightweight version of Spike Lee's masterful...

Pros: very thought-provoking and accurate insight into our social structures
Cons: Perhaps there are too many different social subjects covered.

There are two comments in previous reviews that I wholeheartedly agree with: the first is that this is one of those movies that stick in your mind well after the film is over, and the second is that this movie is a very good study for a sociology class. ...

Pros: A good effort to explore college life in America
Cons: Biased, Dramatized, and Limited in views

College films are a dime a dozen. Serious college films are hard to come by. Let's face it, most college films are slapstick toilet humor comedies that focus on that "magical freshmen year" when young adults are finally freed from the shackles of their ...

Pros: Lots to think about
Cons: Party atmosphere to put up with

This premise of this movie interested me - about racial tension on a college campus.  I consider myself a very diverse and open-minded person and generally enjoy movies that encourage me to expand my horizons even further, such as Crash.  On ...

Pros: Micheal Rapport
Cons: Tyra Banks

Initially, I was having difficulties choosing whom I thought was the best underrated actor, because there are so many. One does have to take into consideration that some actors are better suited to play smaller parts and some are better in certain roles...

Pros: An intense, ambitious drama with a competent cast
Cons: Drops the ball on most of its subplots

Those of you who think that plotless remake of Shaft is as ambitious as John Singleton gets should check out Higher Learning, his multi-cultural, multi-ethnic drama from 1995. It's not quite the scaled-back, knowing quality of Boyz in...

Pros: Strong acting, thought-provoking story.
Cons: Bludgeoning preachiness.

After the critical and box office disappointment of Poetic Justice, Singleton returned to more issue-minded cinema with 1995's Higher Learning. The film follows a cross-section of students at fictional Colombus University as they head down...

Pros: great acting, great plot
Cons: none

There are some movies that stay with you long after they are over, Higher Learning is definitely one of these movies. This movie takes you through a short period of time in the lives of a few students of Columbus University. It shows people with...

Pros: more reality than most college movies
Cons: not many

If you watch any movies about college life, let me tell you the one you don't want to watch--PCU. Without any description to take away from the subject of this review, it was a movie overblowing every and any stereotype from college life.

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Pros: the truth about hate and prejudice
Cons: a sad thought of the world that we live in today

OK so this movie I found to be fantastic. I actually watched it in my sociology class at school and it fit the course perfectly. "Higher Learning" shows the different effects that society has on people. Specifically in the film, kids in college.
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Pros: Busta Rhymes, harsh reality
Cons: worst case scenario, prejudice is real

If anyone has seen the film Higher Learning, the scene that will stand out in the mind of the viewer is the monologue of Busta Rhymes after a brutal racial brawl:

"IT'S ABOUT DIS!"...
(BUSTA raises a bloody fist in the air,...

Pros: great plot. Very thorough
Cons: some seens drag a little

Usually I am not a fan of movies about black discrimination. Usually films like that are just whiney and prejudice but I have to say that higher learning is one of the finnest movies of the 1990's. this film depicts the life of a black track star, and a...