Chi-Raq

"This sprawling, blistering state-of-the-reunion-address is Spike Lee's most vital movie in years. (...) Blunt, didactic and stronger on conceptual audacity than dramatic coherence" 

"Spike Lee is back and he's got a lot to say. (...) A lively and legitimate way to tackle urgent subject matter that other film-makers have found excuses to avoid" 

“Chi-raq” is Lee’s counter-strike, deploying a vast arsenal of ideas in his most audacious and lyrical film in years" 

"A gutsy social satire and a highly stylized work of fiction that sometimes feels as accurate and sobering as the crime reporting you see on the front page of this newspaper (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)" 

"If Chi-Raq disarms even a small percentage of those who see it, and provokes any reflection about a gun culture, the uses of satire and the plight of a sadly emblematic city, it was worth the effort. However mixed-up the results" 

"While formally quite different from [Lee's] more universally-respected early work, Chi-Raq has the exuberance and wit you'll find in Do The Right Thing (...) It's the best film he's made in a very long time (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of five)" 

"Though it sometimes recalls the irresistibly energetic, genre-bending feel of Lee’s best films – Do The Right Thing in particular – it lacks the assurance and unifying thrust that made those features work so well"