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| SUMMER OF SAM (1999) - R
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ReviewScore: 65 out of 100
SBD Star Rating:
by Lew Irwin
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Like other Spike Lee movies, his Summer of Sam is being greeted with wildly mixed reviews. Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun Times awards a "thumbs up" salute to it (and 31/2 stars), commenting: "Lee's best films thrum with a wound-up energy, and Summer of Sam vibrates with fear, guilt and lust." But Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times finds much of the movie "shocking and disturbing" not because of its message, but because "it's hard to see what purpose [the depictions of beatings and killings] serve." Rod Dreher in the New York Post concludes that the film is "an interesting failure, an ambitious misfire," while Mike Clark in USA Today similarly concludes, "Sam has too much personality to be termed a turkey, but like even Lee's best, it's overstuffed." |
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