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Don't Be Nice
Directed by
Max Powers
Not Rated
2018
1h 35m
Documentary
8.8
91%
86%
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A team of young New York City Slam Poets finds its voice as it competes for the National Championship during the summer of 2016.
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Kanopy
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Amazon Video
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Cast of Don't Be Nice
Lauren Whitehead
Self
Ashley August
Self
Sean DesVignes
Self
Timothy DuWhite
Self
Joël François
Self
Noel Quiñones
Self
Jon Sands
Self
Caroline Sinclair
Self
Olutayo Bosede
Dancer
Elizabeth Douglass
Ex Girlfriend
Max Powers
Director
Nikhil Melnechuk
Producer
Cora Atkinson
Producer
Don't Be Nice Ratings & Reviews
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Sean Clancy
It's a fascinating combination of reality show, coming-of-age story, social critique, and literary boot camp.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Slam poetry makes the spoken word an emotional sport for a young generation of aspiring poets.
Film Threat
Alan Ng
If you ever want to slip into your local poetry slam, Don't Be Nice is the perfect primer for your experience. It will blow away your preconceptions and show you the art inside the artist.
Los Angeles Times
Katie Walsh
A finely observed documentary about a national slam poetry competition that rises above its traditional format to find the personal profundity in the art form.
The Film Experience
Glenn Dunks
Small - intimate perhaps a more appropriate word - but bursting at the seams with fire, creativity, rage and artistic love.
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
A documentary that reveals the power of poetry to speak truth to power.
Mark Reviews Movies
Mark Dujsik
[W]e're actually invested in these poets as artists trying to make sense of themselves and the world, not just as competitors trying to win.
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
The art of the spoken word, at its most powerful.
TheWrap
Candice Frederick
Captures the revitalization of the artist in a world filled with doom.
St. Anthony Messenger
Sr. Rose Pacatte
For these poets, writing is a form of activism; poetry is their song. I found the film to be inspiring and moving.
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