JIM BROWN: ALL-AMERICAN (2002)
Spike Lee put on his I'm-making-a-documentary hat once again for this look at football legend Jim Brown. Here's what the original OG, Owen Gleiberman, said about the film: ''Lee's achievement extends to his supple understanding of the role that Brown played in American culture as an athlete, a movie star, and an image of black indomitability. He first appeared on the big screen in the mid-'60s, his career catapulted to mainstream viability by The Dirty Dozen. Yet the very aspect of his presence that was so captivating — the sexual charisma that made him far more threatening to white America than Sidney Poitier — was at once exploited and feared by Hollywood.''
