Do the Right Thing Reviews

Who expected this to be its director's last really terrific film?

| Original Score: 4/5

Inarguably one of the greatest American films ever made.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

Made me love Spike.

| Original Score: 5/5

A subtle and humane entertainment with a refreshingly serious view of the world. There are no absolute heroes or villains. There are no easy answers to the questions that this film poses with such artistry and grace.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

Mr. Lee's movie is anything but minimalist. It is bursting with character, color, incident and music, including a militant rap number performed by Public Enemy.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

You can't afford not to see this modern masterpiece.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

Roger Ebert points out that this film, which honestly (and sometimes graphically) explores the ambivalence surrounding race relations, was probably the best movie of 1989. I would have a hard time disagreeing.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

I think it's Spike's best. Loud, honest, angry entertainment.

| Original Score: 5/5

While the film is seldom boring, its general lack of focus does seem to blunt much of the drama that its final explosive sequence might have engendered.

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Do the Right Thing operates to approach race frankly, as peoples' interpretations of the climax become interwoven with their preconceptions of race and bigotry.

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A powerful and poignant portrait of contemporary urban life.

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Lee's theatrical piece speaks the Truth, Ruth. And it just ain't simple.

Full Review | Original Score: A

Spike Lee combines a forceful statement on race relations with solid entertainment values.

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This may not be the best film of the summer, but it is the most ambitious.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10

A movie made by filmmaker working in sync with his times -- an exciting, disturbing, provocative film.

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Are you covering your soft parts? Spike Lee is about to drag you into a sizzling kitchen called "Do the Right Thing."

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Has the greatness necessary to embrace its contradictions

Full Review | Original Score: 89/100

This film changed the way I looked at movies.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Plays like a pot of boiling water, eventually bursting and spilling over for a shocking and brilliant climax

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

An angry film, but it's also a thought-provoking one

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