The film mostly works to confirm that its main characters’ love for one another is straightforward and without complexities.
Criterion’s new transfer brings out the unruly beauty of Spike Lee’s lurid, violent, daring political satire.
That it half succeeds, in spite of its cloying self-seriousness, means that it’s at best a convincing copycat of a definitive expression of ego and influence in art.
Alcatraz is muddled by its own terribly formulaic design.
The looks of horror in Bill and Barb’s eyes come from very different places.