Metacritic reviews

Spike Lee's explosive, near-masterpiece media satire balances between brilliance and incoherence.

Nothing seriously detracts from the film's overall brilliance.

Starts out hilarious and then turns very, very grim.

It's a unique blend of history and hysteria, and there's no escaping the dead-serious ideas that run beneath its flamboyant surface.

What the movie lacks in clarity, it makes up for in honesty, toughness, relentlessness and passion.

It's the angriest film an unfailingly angry filmmaker has yet made, skewering almost everyone in it, both black and white.

Ends with a fizzle, not a bang.

Infuriating on almost every conceivable level.

The film's as chaotic and heavy-handed as "Summer of Sam" without the same sense of harsh reality.

This is the kind of misfire that can take everyone down with it. It's not just bad, it's mean-bad.