Citizen Ashe

Eye-opening...

I thoroughly enjoyed this movie.

This thoughtful documentary about Arthur Ashe, the first African American man to win Wimbledon in 1975, understands that representation is only one step towards equality.

Ultimately, if Miller and Pollard don't paint a particularly warts-and-all portrait of Ashe, they don't set him up as some sort of saint either: just a certain man of a certain era with an amazing talent. It's a fitting tribute.

This is a decent film.

Fans of tennis and fascinating American lives will be equally satisfied.

You can never have enough Storyville documentaries, and this look at the life of Arthur Ashe proved to be just the ticket.

If the result never entirely convinced us that its subject measures up to our exacting modern standards, it left us in no doubt that the reverence was justified.

A necessary documentation of a life perhaps remembered for tennis first and his tragic end second. Ashe's rise to activism and how to cautiously react to the McEnroes of the world deserves a higher ranking.

What I found compelling about the film was how it focused on how our lives are shaped by the events that take place around us... It was fascinating to watch this compassionate giant reach his eventual and inevitable voice.