To Sleep with Anger

Though it's extremely slow going at times, "To Sleep With Anger" offers a universal look at familial dynamics, articulated from a uniquely black, warmly poetic perspective. Charles Burnett, whose 1977 film "Killer of Sheep" just made the Library of Congress keeper list, spins a yarn suitable to Allhallows' Eve in the amusingly macabre "To Sleep With Anger. ... Full Review

The film's only flaw is that the "eventually" is too long in coming. A younger brother grows weak and without direction. There are some good things in this movie, and too much time in between them. ... Full Review

Neit her his 1990 masterpiece To Sleep With Anger , which starred Danny Glover and played the art-house circuits, nor his honorable but unexceptional 1991 TV documentary about U.S. immigration, America Becoming, has had much of an impact on the public. ... Full Review

A box-office disappointment on its initial 1990 release, To Sleep With Anger cuts against the ghetto grain of early 90s African-American cinema. Both a naturalistic domestic drama and a mystical fable, it focuses on a middle-class black household in South... ... Full Article

Burnett's first film since the provocative To Sleep with Anger in 1990 is a Lumet-style policier inspired by an everyday tale of LAPD-sponsored murder, racism and corruption. ... Full Article