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Reviews Counted:96
Fresh:48
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Average Rating:5.6/10
Consensus: Spike Lee offers intense visuals but his storytelling feels crowded and overambitious.
Runtime: 2 hrs 22 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: SUMMER OF SAM, Spike Lee's sizzling interpretation of the summer of 1977 in New York City, when thermometers shattered and a serial killer terrorized the city, focuses on an Italian-American... [More]
Starring: John Leguizamo, Mira Sorvino, Adrien Brody, Jennifer Esposito
Director: Spike Lee
Spike Lee's new film chronicles this event and the ways it touched a community through its violence and intolerance. It's Lee's most vibrant work yet, and it carefully explores each and every downfall Lee holds as a director.
This movie is constantly in motion, spinning from one level of the story to another.
A sprawling wasteland of inflammatory tabloid moviemaking, it's more white-hot and frenetic and honestly emotional than any other movie this year.
Bravely weird, it shows sex and violence exploding, without explanation or definition, at a time when people felt out of control, simultaneously seduced and menaced. These complications make it a troubling, unforgettable experience.
I'm not one of the many admirers of Spike Lee's work, but his emphasis on small details and the depiction of a tensely-approached summer is obvious evidence of his growth as a movie director.
Spike Lee's take on the summer of 1977 in New York City.
Disappointing.
Truly spellbinding and powerful.
Summer of Sam has a genuinely operatic sweep, as Lee succeeds in capturing the madness and dark humor of what, even by New York standards, was a bizarre summer.
Spike Lee is a master at image manipulation!
The performances are almost uniformly excellent!
A riveting and unsettling look at the summer of 1977 when fear and paranoia reigned.
A sprawling, brilliantly acted character study which touches on love, friendship and betrayal, while also managing to recreate the last days of disco without a note of self-parody.
With loud music and upfront posturing, it makes for an entertaining, powerful experience at the movies.
The film is so involving because it seems to be a dance around Lee's memory and imagination.
Lee's ensemble cast does uniformly fine work, with the often underused Leguizamo as a tremendous standout.
For more than two hours, you can't catch your breath.
Lee does a superb job!
Top CriticFuriously enthralling!
Top CriticThe story makes very important points, and shows us a graphic parable of the wages of sin. But the ugliness along the way will be too much for some viewers....
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