Is That Black Enough for You?!?

Elvis Mitchell wrote and directed this documentary, in which he also serves as narrator. It examines how Black cinema changed during the 1970s, moving between genre filmmaking and social realism, and considers how the era produced new stars while a generation of directors developed its craft. The film traces that history back to earlier roots, and it draws on interviews and archival material, with Margaret Avery, Harry Belafonte, Charles Burnett, Suzanne de Passe and Antonio Fargas among those appearing as themselves.

The film was produced by Steven Soderbergh, David Fincher and Angus Wall, and it runs 135 minutes. It was released in October 2022, making it Mitchell's debut as a director after a long career as a critic and cultural historian, a background that shapes the film's approach: it is as much an argument about how these movies were received and remembered as it is a survey of them.

On IMDb, the documentary holds a rating of 7.2 from around 1,700 votes, a fairly solid audience score on that platform. On TMDB, the rating is 6.1 from a much smaller pool of 38 votes, a figure that should be read with caution given how few people contributed to it. A critics' rating of 8.1 from 43 reviews places professional assessment noticeably higher than the broader audience scores on both platforms.