Spike Lee

Spike Lee on She Hate Me and Career Highlights

A reminder that Spike Lee is one of our great American filmmakers, unafraid to address, directly and artfully, contemporary issues in a context of national history.

Lee is a bona fide cinematic genius, and his lively and inventive take on tired material proves that thriller corn needn't be mindless in its machinations.

Problematic as a narrative...[but] Lee's simply too smart and talented to make a dismissible film. 

A towering achievement in American cinema, Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing takes a hard look at a community in crisis.

Spike Lee called 1992's Malcolm X 'the picture I was born to make,' and star Denzel Washington referred to the titular civil-rights leader as 'the role of a lifetime.' They're both right...

Our American addiction...bloodsucking from humanity in order to maintain the lifestyle to which we are accustomed. By the time Hess wearily muses, "I'm tired of this existence," it's more or less clear he means a spiritually empty capitalist existence...

When Lee cooks up a stew this heady, one best recognize...the right film at the right time, Lee’s most creatively fertile and socially immediate narrative feature in years.

Can be overtly funny in its absurdity. For the most part, however, BlacKkKlansman isn’t a comedy at all, but an earnest, vintage Spike Lee joint recounting history and projecting it onto our present.