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Janet Maslin, New York Times: It's the first Spike Lee film with the potential to be turned into a television show. More important, it's the first one to display real warmth of heart. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Lee is as talented as any director is capturing an era, and some of the early scenes perfectly recall the mood of the time. The pop soundtrack may be a little too obvious, but it gets the job done. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Crooklyn is not in any way an angry film. But thinking about the difference between its world and ours can make you angry, and I think that was one of Lee's purposes here. Read more
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: Lee is a great self-promoter. After all his press releases and all his interviews, we are given films that are sketchy, unfelt and distancing -- incidents in Lee's career, the only drama that really interests him. Read more
Geoff Andrew, Time Out: The key problem is that the film is simply a ragged series of anecdotal sketches. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Modulating from heavy to light, from angry to lyrical, and so on, the movie's an enjoyable, emotional symphony. Read more