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Clockers (1995)

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Reviews Counted: 46

Fresh: 31

Rotten:15

Average Rating: 6.5/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 9 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Director Spike Lee examines the violent world of urban drug dealing through the eyes of Strike (Mekhi Phifer), a 19-year-old "clocker," short for round-the-clock pusher. Strike agrees to kill a... Director Spike Lee examines the violent world of urban drug dealing through the eyes of Strike (Mekhi Phifer), a 19-year-old "clocker," short for round-the-clock pusher. Strike agrees to kill a fellow employee of his boss Rodney Little (Delroy Lindo), an influential, popular drug lord. But when the hit goes down, it is Strike's moral, law-abiding brother Victor (Isaiah Washington) who confesses, shocking everyone. The detective assigned to the case, Rocco Klein (Harvey Keitel), doesn't believe Victor--the more that Klein, along with others in Strike's life, start putting the heat on, the more the clocker finds himself up against the wall. The question is: Who is the real killer? A gritty, realistic adaptation of Richard Price's best-selling novel, Lee's film is also one of his most highly invigorating. Shooting with a gritty, washed-out film stock, with startling moments of saturated primary color, CLOCKERS feels like a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the daily lives of a group of New York City drug dealers, featuring a star-making performance by Phifer. [More]

Starring: Mekhi Phifer, Harvey Keitel, Delroy Lindo, John Turturro

Starring: Mekhi Phifer, Harvey Keitel, Delroy Lindo, John Turturro, Isaiah Washington, Keith David, Pee Wee Love, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Regina Taylor, Brendan Kelly

Director: Spike Lee

Director: Spike Lee

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Lee's film never recaptures the impact of the opening credit sequence, a grimly deglamorized tableaux of real-life crime scenes.

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09/22/08
TV Guide's Movie Guide

There is a force and focus in Lee's work, an absence of intellectual posturing and a willingness to let his material speak for itself that he has not achieved before.

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09/22/08
Richard Schickel
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Average Lee, but still enjoyable overall.

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09/22/08
Angie Errigo
Empire Magazine

Arguably Lee's best film since Do The Right Thing.

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09/22/08
Channel 4 Film

The performances are strong, but the spectator often feels adrift in an overly busy intrigue.

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09/22/08
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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A study of the urban dope-dealing culture and its toll on everyone who comes in contact with it, the picture has an insider's feel that is constantly undercut by the filmmaker's impulse to editorialize.

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06/09/08
Todd McCarthy
Variety
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Spike Lee gets a good perfromance from newcomer Phifer as the young crack dealer, but the movie is diffuse, paying too much attention to the urban environment and not enough to the personas and dilemmas of the central characters.

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02/18/08
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

Clockers is messy and didactic, but it's complex in a way that a tidy film can't be.

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07/30/07
Rob Gonsalves
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09/24/06
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

The result is a more sober, mournful and meditative expressionism than you'd expect. That's not to say the film isn't suspenseful, but the director's distaste for the inner city's gun culture is clear to see. Superbly acted.

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02/09/06
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07/06/05
Emanuel Levy
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03/18/05
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly

A fascinating and engrossing character study.

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01/08/05
Michael Dequina
Mr. Brown's Movies

Sub-par Spike Lee

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10/23/04
Steve Crum
Kansas City Kansan

One of the best films of the 90's....a knockout

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10/11/04
Clint Morris
Moviehole

Decent urban drama.

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05/01/04
Fred Topel
About.com

A trilha sonora intrusiva acaba cansando, mas o filme se sobressai graças à complexidade de seus personagens.

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02/06/04
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

A too-passive lead character sinks this otherwise interesting film.

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12/28/03
Jeffrey M. Anderson
San Francisco Examiner

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09/04/03
Mike McGranaghan
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08/22/03
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Las Vegas Review-Journal
 
 
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