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Film · 1989 · Comedy drama
Do the Right Thing
Directed by Spike Lee
1989
★ 8.2 editorial score
No American film has been braver about refusing to resolve: one Brooklyn block on the hottest day of the year, and Lee will not tell you who was right.
“Do the Right Thing is a big movie. Though the action is limited to one more-or-less idealized block in Bed-Stuy, the scope is panoramic. It's a contemporary Street Scene.It has the heightened reality of theater, not only in its look but also in the way the lyrics of the songs on the soundtrack become natural extensions of the furiously demotic, often hugely funny dialogue.”
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