Crooklyn

This movie will grab ahold of you because you felt throught the eyes of a child living in the ghetto.This movie is prowerful,heartbursting and a good cry.Movie such as this will never died.... Full review

Though i only saw the first hour i got bored bc there really was no point to the story...it was just argueing and it got annoying....i expected it to be alot more dramatic and interesting but that didnt happen... Full review

Horrible mess and time consuming! I would rather go to the dentist with Gary Busey!The most horrible directing from Spinke Lee. He exhaust his image in a rapture of close an "in your face" cinemotography!... Full review

this is a must-see it is funny a little bit sad. it is a great film, it was very realistic. great, terrific, charming, what else can i say about this movie!!! i have watche it so many time GREAT MOVIE GO... Full review

I love this movie because i wasn't born in the the 70's and this makes me want to be in that time period i think that spike lee did a very good job.... Full review

This story is great becasue it goes through some of the trials of adjusting to a new environment. I think Spike Lee did a fantastic job in directing and producing this movie. I would suggest it to all ages of preteen... Full review

This movie was a good movie,it potrayed an african american family during the time of the 1980's. This movies gets two thumbs up, Queeny was amazing, Troy was great, and Alfre Woordard gave a stunning performance.... Full review

This film really was amazing i have to admit im not usally into films like this but seriously you have to watch this movie you will love, its been one of my favourite films ever since i saw it about 2years... Full review

I belive that this movie was a great story of anger, love, and trying to overcome the impossible. I really enjoyed the way Spike Lee protrayed his life living in Brooklyn and how they tried to overcome the death of there... Full review

Crooklyn has that subjective texture by someone of the New York independent school of film-making (which means it's a cool school more often than not), where personal expression through the medium leads directly into, or out of, the creator's own... Full review

But it's a self-indulgent device and does not serve the film well. ... Full Review

However, it was his role in the comedy Crooklyn that led to his success. ... Full Review

Lee's choice of actors is a complete success. Lee's wonderful opening title sequence shows the children's street games that flourished in Brooklyn in the 1970s. She makes the character into a good person without ever laying it on too thick. ... Full Review

U.S. Distributor: Universal Pictures From Malcolm X to Crooklyn , Spike Lee has moved from heavy, epic drama to something significantly more lighthearted. ... Full Review

Except for a few static, overdrawn scenes, Crooklyn is rich in funny and touching entertainment. This remarkable movie will haunt you for a good long time. Crooklyn is most telling when it stays most spare. ... Full Review

Looking back over the summer of 1994, I can safely say that it's a serious candidate for the worst movie summer of all time. It's a jumble of big-budget flops, bad sequels, awful kids' movies, all-but-totally-forgotten comedies and other general... ... Full Article

Mar 17th 2009 11:06AM Ugh. What a horrible line reading. You can tell she didn't feel the conviction of what she was saying. Or maybe they made the voice actress wear the nightie in the recording booth - too get... ... Full Article

I was sitting on the couch trying to figure out what movie to watch on Tuesday night. I had it down to watching Spike Lee's Crooklyn or the Coen Brothers' Barton Fink . ... Full Article

If culture is understood as an aspect of life which is ever-present, then one must also understand that media, in all of its forms, is responsible for displays of culture. ... Full Article

The saddest thing, Spike Lee thinks, is that in some neighborhoods the children no longer know how to play street games. The streets are so unsafe the kids hide inside, and decades of childhood culture have disappeared in a generation. ... Full Article

From Time Out Film Guide This semi-comic look at middle-class family life in Brooklyn, New York, in the mid-'70s was written by Spike Lee and his siblings Joie and Cinqu. ... Full Article