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Crooklyn

A new look at the old neighborhood.

1994 · 1h 54m · PG-13 Comedy, Drama
Directed by Spike Lee

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Overview

From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn.

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Critics on Rotten Tomatoes

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76%
Tomatometer
Rotten

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.

Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
Rotten

The key problem is that the film is simply a ragged series of anecdotal sketches.

Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh

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.

Janet Maslin, New York Times
Fresh

This remarkable movie will haunt you for a good long time.

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Fresh

Modulating from heavy to light, from angry to lyrical, and so on, the movie's an enjoyable, emotional symphony.

Desson Thomson, Washington Post

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