With this extraordinary transfer, Criterion honors the profound hothouse intensity of Spike Lee’s greatest film.
The means by which the film provides the facts is its weakest aspect, but it’s more a narrative snafu than a half-assed political statement.
As Mister Señor Love Daddy commands, “WAKE UP” to this absolutely essential home video.
Do the Right Thing is an undiluted representation of its creator’s artistic command.
Spider-Man 3 sees Spider-Man as a rock star who allows the public’s adulation of his heroism to go to his head.
Had it been made shortly after 9/11, Firehouse Dog might have seemed like a shameless attempt to marry the country’s reverence for the New York Fire Department with Air Bud.
Sam Raimi’s millenium Spider-Man is both sensitive and realistically self-serving.