He Got Game

“Spike Lee celebrates basketball as the apotheosis of black-American glory without lying about the game’s effect on the black community...In the real world, removed from the idealism of lonely shooters, basketball is drenched in money, envy, and betrayal. The movie is a volatile combination of ambitious mythmaking and nasty reality, and like most of Spike Lee’s work, it is also an inextricable combination of good and bad.”