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With She's Gotta Have It, Spike Lee delivered his bracing first shot across Hollywood's bow -- and set the template for the groundbreaking act to follow.
All Critics (31) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (28) | Rotten (3) | DVD (5)
All the elements of an interesting yarn are implicit here -- save one: a compelling central figure Mar 17, 2008 | Full Review…
All the elements of an interesting yarn are implicit here -- save one: a compelling central figure
Variety Staff
This delightful low-budget comedy, with its all black cast and black humour, is 100 per cent Lee. Feb 9, 2006 | Full Review…
This delightful low-budget comedy, with its all black cast and black humour, is 100 per cent Lee.
The film probes important and intriguing questions, even if the characters are not explored as thoroughly as they might have been. May 21, 2003 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
The film probes important and intriguing questions, even if the characters are not explored as thoroughly as they might have been.
D.J.R. Bruckner
Made for less than $30,000, Lee's first feature posed him as a mid-80s rival to Woody Allen, nearly equaling him in the psychological authenticity of his characters and perhaps bettering him in grace and virtuosity and sheer creative glee. Apr 15, 2002 | Full Review…
Made for less than $30,000, Lee's first feature posed him as a mid-80s rival to Woody Allen, nearly equaling him in the psychological authenticity of his characters and perhaps bettering him in grace and virtuosity and sheer creative glee.
Peter Keough
It's going backwards in order to move the conversation forward... This could and should have been good but, ultimately, there are too many holes, too many monologues and too many things for me to get over for me to actually enjoy it. Sep 11, 2018 | Full Review…
It's going backwards in order to move the conversation forward... This could and should have been good but, ultimately, there are too many holes, too many monologues and too many things for me to get over for me to actually enjoy it.
Kemi Alemoru
Nola is an unapologetic, sexually independent character who refuses to commit to a single man and resists the efforts of the men in her life to change who she is to please them. Dec 16, 2017 | Full Review…
Nola is an unapologetic, sexually independent character who refuses to commit to a single man and resists the efforts of the men in her life to change who she is to please them.
Sean Axmaker
Spike Lee's breakout comedy has lots of nudity and sex. Sep 12, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Spike Lee's breakout comedy has lots of nudity and sex.
Andrea Beach
Light, scrappy entertainment that flatters everything funky and fresh about Lee, tempting you to forgive what is stunted or abrasive in the film. A major swaying element is his own on-screen persona. Jul 11, 2011 | Rating: B | Full Review…
Light, scrappy entertainment that flatters everything funky and fresh about Lee, tempting you to forgive what is stunted or abrasive in the film. A major swaying element is his own on-screen persona.
Nick Davis
Combining humor, drama, and documentary techniques, Lee has created an energetic film that takes an unflinching look at modern sexuality -- specifically black sexuality. Mar 17, 2008 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Combining humor, drama, and documentary techniques, Lee has created an energetic film that takes an unflinching look at modern sexuality -- specifically black sexuality.
From the start, it was less important whether or not you agreed with Lee than if you appreciated him for stirring things up. Jan 23, 2008 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
From the start, it was less important whether or not you agreed with Lee than if you appreciated him for stirring things up.
Josh Larsen
She's Gotta Have It's characters talk into the camera, but they do so in service of a Rashomon-tinged postmortem on how an artistic young woman couldn't make polyamory work in her favor. Jan 13, 2008 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
She's Gotta Have It's characters talk into the camera, but they do so in service of a Rashomon-tinged postmortem on how an artistic young woman couldn't make polyamory work in her favor.
Eric Henderson
New York Negro neurosis as source material for mirth, amusement and introspection, like a Woody Allen classic, only in blackface. Jan 12, 2008 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
New York Negro neurosis as source material for mirth, amusement and introspection, like a Woody Allen classic, only in blackface.
Kam Williams
Spike Lee's debut feature is a racially orientated sex comedy examining attitudes within a love triangle of black suburbanites. Some witty lines but it's a little affected and self-absorbed, and it often feels like an african-american rip off of a Woody Allen film. Not bad though.
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