“25th Hour is one of Spike Lee's most moving films. It's thematically complex and still holds up 23 years later.”
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“As an exercise in storytelling, Burning succeeds spectacularly. Each of the stories is compelling, and the filmmaking in each heightens the horrors that the family is facing.”
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“It might be the least Spike Lee Spike Lee film, but he and cinematographer Matthew Libatique make sure that it is still very much a Spike Lee film at least in tone and feel.”
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“…Lee wants us considering the ripple effects that these cold-blooded killings have on a hyper-proud, hyper-macho and fiercely tight-knit community…”
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“Bamboozled doesn’t work today because its satire was strictly true in 2000. It works because it’s still true today.”
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“The film leaves you in such a disquieting state, allowing for the chance to really reflect on and ponder so many of the key ideas and themes here through such a personal lens. I know I haven’t been able to shake the film for weeks.”
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“The details are so particular and unique, ‘Crooklyn’ becomes immediately and infectiously transportive; it’s a step back in time in film-form.”
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“The Bearded Girl is a fine little film with a great central performance.”
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“The Well might tread on some familiar territory, but its well-defined characters –particularly the performance by McCarthy as the antagonist – and well-thought-out world make it perhaps not unique, but entirely believable.”
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“Horsegirls' basic plot and structure may not be unique, but the characters that tell it are.”
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