Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Wish I could've liked it more. . .
This could have been an excellent film, but it falls short by making some significant relationships one-dimensional. I'm mainly thinking of the 2 female roommate characters in the movie, (one white, one black) who could have demonstrated something other than the rather extreme, racially polarized aspects of race relations in college. These characters actually got along and found a way to live with eachother and even become friends despite the chaos around them.John Singleton, in trying to incoroporate every problem on college campuses today (date rape, drained financial resources) shortsights many of them. Instead, the movie principally becomes about Micheal Rappaport, and his journey from small-town insecure guy to violent racist. It's in this character that the movie is strongest. Rappaport's acting is suberb -- he captures Remy's insecurities and slide towards self-destruction wonderfully. In sum, this is worth catching, simply because it is one of the few movies to even try to capture racial unrest on college campuses.
Rating:  - College 101
Higher Learning paints a decent portrait of college life. The movie shows nearly every obstacle that a college student can face through the stories of Malik, Kristen and Remmy(lack of $$, racism, sexual assault, sexuality, identity crisis, wanting to belong, adjusting to college work) However, by trying to include every possible situation that students face, the movie's themes and plots become very muddled. Higher Learning would probably have served more if it had focused on one or two situations.
Rating:  - STUPID WHITE MEN -THE MOVIE!
The kind of movie Dr. Goebbels loved to film, only with its colors inverted:
Black people?: COOL
White people?: JERKS
Ignorant black man?: A DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH
Ignorant white man?: MUST BE A NAZI
Ignorant white woman?: MUST BE A BIMBO
Ignorant black woman?: NO SUCH THING
Intelligent black man?: YODA ON CAMPUS
Intelligent white man?: NO SUCH THING
Intelligent black woman?: MOTHER EARTH GODDESS
Intelligent white woman?: MUST BE A LESBIANTo put it politically-correct, "N-word, puhleez!" Lighten up!
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