Higher Learning 1995 Watch Free in HD

In John Singleton's powerful portrait of college life in the 1990s, a group of incoming freshmen at Columbus University encounter racial tension, rape, responsibility, and the meaning of an education on a university campus.

Genre:

Romance, Crime, Drama

Actors:

Omar Epps, Kristy Swanson, Michael Rapaport, Jennifer Connelly, Ice Cube, Jason Wiles, Tyra Banks, Cole Hauser, Laurence Fishburne, Bradford English, Regina King, ...»

Director:

John Singleton

Country:

United States

Release:

1995

IMDb:

6.5

Quality:

Duration:

128 min

Time Out

A stylish, intelligent film-maker, Singleton interweaves the threads of his demographic tapestry with assurance, passion and a welcome awareness of the complexities of the college community's contradictory impulses towards integration and separatism.

February 09, 2006

Resource

Moviehole

Another tour-de-force for Singleton

March 23, 2005

Film4

The film lapses into polarized melodrama but it's a handsome piece, displaying a fair understanding of our desperate need to belong.

July 25, 2010

Resource

Variety

Higher Learning has a great many things on its mind, which immediately places it in a rather exclusive category of American films these days.

October 18, 2008

New Times

For anyone who's been to USC, it's a pretty hilarious parody of life there. If you take it as presented, however, it's over-dramatic and unbelievable.

November 03, 2005

Los Angeles Times

Presenting problems is not the same as dramatizing them successfully, and as strong as his message is, Singleton has not found the best way to deliver it.

February 13, 2001

Resource

Film Threat

There's some nice ideas and realistically felt characters here.

December 06, 2005

Resource

New York Times

Everyone here, from beer-swilling white fraternity boys to rap-loving black students harassed by the campus police, can be judged at face value. Everyone is exactly what he or she seems.

May 20, 2003

Rolling Stone

Higher Learning is often clichéd, unfocused and didactic. But Singleton has a goal most of his contemporaries have given up on: He wants to make a movie that makes a difference.

May 12, 2001

KFOR Channel 4 News

John Singleton at his most pretentious and preachy.

January 27, 2004

TV Guide

Singleton gets points for exposing the hypocrisy of "politically correct" institutions, but stilted dialogue and cardboard characterizations undermine the message.

July 25, 2010

Resource

Entertainment Weekly

Despite some likable performances (Epps is especially winning), the drama in Higher Learning is constricted, hemmed in by Singleton's compulsion to view his characters as walking paradigms of racial and sexual politics.

July 06, 2010

Resource

Watch Higher Learning

Oops...

Something went wrong.

Try again later.

Feedback about this page?