The Academy should be ashamed of itself.

Rating: 10/10 (8 April 1999)

The Academy should be ashamed of itself because it no longer awards the best movies and the best actors, and "American History X" couldn't more obviously illustrate that point. The Academy was afraid to accolade American History X because it dealt HONESTLY with the issue of racism.
There is one feeling that addicts us to movies, and the theater for that matter; it is that poignance that places us in an almost euphoric trance where we appreciate the and feel the movie more after we have seen it than during seeing it. The movie lingers in our thoughts for a few days after seeing it. We are addicted to this feeling. It is a drug for the human soul. I can offer no better movie to evoke this drug than "American History X". See it.