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Category / Lee, Spike

October 11, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Do the Right Thing (1989)

  • Criterion Collection, Lee, Spike
  • 1989, Spike Lee, USA
  • 5 Comments

A cultural touchstone in modern American cinema, Spike Lee’s breakthrough tell-it-as-it-is treatment of racism is even more sobering to view more than 30 years later.

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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June 13, 2020March 17, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Da 5 Bloods (2020)

  • Lee, Spike
  • 2020, Spike Lee, USA
  • 2 Comments

An interesting mess of ideas, genres and styles, Spike Lee’s lengthy new joint is effective when it is polemical, but the main message about how we could draw urgent relevancy from the contemporary Black Lives Matter movement in relation to the painful lessons of the Vietnam War gets muddled in the film’s excesses.

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Rating: 3 out of 5.

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January 14, 2020October 24, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2014)

  • Lee, Spike
  • 2014, Spike Lee, USA
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Has no real narrative impetus and mistakes a laidback filmmaking style for meaning-making, this modern ‘Ganja and Hess’ remake by Spike Lee is a turn-off.

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Rating: 1.5 out of 5.

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December 24, 2019November 17, 2021 by Eternality Tan

BlackKklansman (2018)

  • Lee, Spike
  • 2018, Spike Lee, USA
  • 2 Comments

A return to sterling form for Spike Lee, this is one of the year’s most powerful films, and it’s very funny too.

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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December 24, 2019October 24, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Oldboy (2013)

  • Lee, Spike
  • 2013, Spike Lee, USA
  • 1 Comment

Spike Lee’s remake of Park Chan-wook’s twisted masterpiece starts off lethargically, but grows in confidence with its material, though it is still many miles away from the standard of the South Korean original.

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Rating: 2.5 out of 5.

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