We all have movies we somehow never got around to watching. Amina Haleem had never seen American History X. She reviews the movie for NPR's Scott Simon.

Read the Empire Movie review of American History X. This is a terrifying look at the humanity implicit in hatred. Flawed, but ...

American History XIn a rare but successful instance of anti-hype hype, British director Tony Kaye's rants against his feature debut American History X made it one of the year's hotly anticipated ...

American History X is unrelenting. It rarely takes the easy paths, and once the credits roll, you realize that to do so would have been massive folly, an undercutting of all the movie had worked for.