Clockers

this movie gets 3 40's and a bong hit...yheaa boyeeeee!!!!!! thug life glorified in this one beeatchhhhh!!!!!!!!!!! harvey keitel and turturro are awsome... Full review

Well, to start it off, I really didn’t like the whole stomach problem Strike was having. It could have worked in another film but not in this one. I got annoyed for some reason every time I saw him drinking chocolate... Full review

Are you kidding me? I really think this tops and recent urban thrillers. If you haven't seen it, be prepared for a provocative film that will change your perspective.... Full review

This is a great film. I'm not the biggest Spike Lee fan but this is his best. Moving and suspenseful, fantastic action, direction and cinematography.... Full review

spike lee has done it again. This film goes into great depths about the drug dealing business in the urban black community in NYC. acting is perfect, very persuasive.... Full review

Wednesday September 13, 1995 Playing under the opening credits, a series of stark images sets the mood for "Clockers," the disturbing movie Spike Lee has made from Richard Price 's best-selling novel. And because it is so much the film he wanted to make, "Clockers" illustrates another, less audience-friendly aspect of Lee's technique that is not always noticed, his particular combination of emotional distance and moral instruction. ... Full Review

affirms that tragic melodrama is not a prerequisite for emotional impact.....The effectiveness of the unusual style of cinematography is open to debate.....Although racism is only a subtle part of Clockers , the movie nevertheless has a strong anti-racist theme.....The script, written by Richard Price and Spike Lee (and based upon Price's novel, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award), is less cliched than the average New York.... ... Full Review

Some of the movie's most harrowing scenes show cops hardened by a beat where drugs and death are the daily routine..... ... Full Review

Some of the movie's most harrowing scenes show cops hardened by a beat where drugs and death are the daily routine..... ... Full Review

Every other critic on the planet will probably say they love Clockers so as not to appear uncool.....overlapping dialogue, photographing some meaningless low-light images, and other sundry nonsense..... ... Full Review

Price, whose novels include "Clockers" and "Lush Life," received an " Academy Award " for literature in 1999 and wondered if the "Academy" wasn't some kind of beach club or country club. ... Full Article

"My mom is filled with self-pride and self-love and she always taught me to be an asset, and never take a free ride or go the easy route." ... Full Article

Based on Richard Price's grim best-seller, and directed by Spike Lee from a screenplay co-written with Price, Clockers takes the structure of a police procedural to build a chilling portrait of despair, hope, and the unanswered problem of black-on-black crime... ... Full Article

Powell's City of Books, 1005 W. Burnside, Thursday April 29, 7:30 pm I was introduced to the text of Suzan-Lori Parks' breakthrough play Venus in a college class, and have never forgotten the experience. ... Full Article