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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Dash's film is less the stuff cults are made of than fantasies. Read more
Neil Drumming, Entertainment Weekly: No more three-dimensional than your average brand-name-laden hip-hop video. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Seeing two truly rich characters battling for supremacy can have the power of a symphony. Seeing two posses of dull thugs blasting away at each other has all the appeal of a CD single with a skip. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: At least Dash corralled every artist he knew into playing cameo roles, so bored or confused fans can bide their time star-spotting the likes of Mariah Carey, Kanye West and Angie Martinez. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: This brutal chronicle of heavily armed drug dealers is best appreciated (or disdained) as a raw, bracing expression of the spirit of capitalism. Read more
Laura Sinagra, Village Voice: Attempts at real ruggish posturing -- like that de rigueur sideways-gatted, full-body-exposure firing stance -- are just plain laughable. Read more