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www.toxicuniverse.com - : Spike Lee invites controversy and discussion with his films, and Do the Right Thing remains his masterpiece and the best film to come out of the 1980s. Produced in 1989, Lee’s film opened to considerable critical acclaim along with many reviews condemning its explosive and violent content, expressing the fear that the film would be accompanied by racial riots by angry blacks wherever the film screened. We had heard similar warnings from people who feared Malcolm X back in the 1960s, so it is little wonder that Lee would soon film Malcolm X. more...
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www.washingtonpost.com - : As in heat-of-the-moment racial flare-ups in a black New York neighborhood where Italians serve pizza, Koreans sell vegetables but blacks do all the buying. Why love this kind of heat? Because Lee has fused political message, gripping drama and community comedy with finesse. Whether or not you agree with his provocative views (and late in the movie... more...
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www.boxoffice.com - : Though Spike Lee's films tend to be mixed blessings at best, there are those who wouldn't miss one of them for all the firepower in Beijing. When he's on, Lee cooks like a navy blue car seat in August, spewing monster chunks of pointed, gut-level comedy on subjects that no other filmmaker would even contemplate. more...
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