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By Matt Zoller Seitz (637) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 02 Dec 2015

The movie is angry and horrified and mournful but also warm, sensual, life affirming, and so blisteringly funny that critics and political…

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By Amy Nicholson (961) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 02 Dec 2015

Chi-Raq is a marvel. It's Lee resurrecting his voice — angry, impassioned, and funny as hell — right when we need to hear it…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 02 Dec 2015

It is intense and uneven, moving and maddening, all in just about equal measure. But an angry Lee is an interesting Lee, and he’s really angry here…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 02 Dec 2015

Jackson is terrific, of course, although he's the spice here, not the main meal…

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By Tasha Robinson (753) for The Verge (432) on 02 Dec 2015

Hudson has nothing but sadness to sell, but she brings it across beautifully. Jackson has become strutting personified…

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By Joshua Rotter (5) for SF Weekly (560) on 02 Dec 2015

What Aristophanes left to interpretation using ambiguity and metaphor, Lee beats down our throats, which sucks any fun right out of the film…

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By Rebecca Pahle (171) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 02 Dec 2015

A powerful political call-to-arms (or call-away-from-arms) is dulled, but never entirely diminished, by an inconsistent third act…

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By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 02 Dec 2015

So up-to-the-minute about our times, especially black-on-black urban gun violence in Chicago, that it has a great diss on Ben Carson…

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By Sam C. Mac (54) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Dec 2015

A Spike Lee joint in the urgent sociopolitical register of Radio Raheem's boombox—a call to arms that's also a call to disarm…

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By Leor Galil (1) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Dec 2015

Lee's finished project isn't strong enough to meet the mounting complaints against it -- or say anything meaningful about the city's murder…

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By Travis Hopson (923) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 01 Dec 2015

Something got Lee real mad, and when he's mad he's at his best…

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By Rodrigo Perez (382) for The Playlist (3,871) on 30 Nov 2015

While its ambition does show a director still aspiring for great heights, its patchy execution only partly restores the faith…

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By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 30 Nov 2015

Spike Lee's state-of-the-union address has ambition to burn, and it burns it to the ground…

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By Kam Williams (1,272) for Baret News (418) on 28 Nov 2015

The best adaptation of a classic play into ghetto fabulous fare since the inspired reinterpretation of Romeo and Juliet as Romeo Must Die (2000)…

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By Jordan Hoffman (1,025) for The Guardian (2,969) on 26 Nov 2015

While formally quite different from his more universally-respected early work, Chi-Raq has the exuberance and wit you’ll find in Do The Right…

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By Jen Yamato (145) for The Daily Beast (380) on 25 Nov 2015

As 'Chi-Raq''s world expands, Lee's true target comes into focus: Chi-Raq is Chicago is America, and we are all, in our own way, responsible…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 23 Nov 2015

It’s a shattering, thunderous wake-up alarm, a call to lay down arms, a gutsy social satire and a highly stylized work of fiction that sometimes…

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By Kevin B. Lee (21) for TheWrap (3,203) on 23 Nov 2015

If the film’s pinning much of the world’s problems to sex at times seems excessive, silly or reductive, Lee justifies it with moments of…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Variety (12,700) on 23 Nov 2015

Lee’s vision of a scarred, gutted city may not please the tourism board, but his movie is better for it: Its seething dramatic texture captures…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 23 Nov 2015

Even if the now-veteran director lays everything on a bit thick, repeatedly makes many of the same points and lets things go on too long, he's…

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