Do The Right Thing
It's the hottest day of the year in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
20 October 1953, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
21 December 1948, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
1938, Pelion, South Carolina, USA
16 April 1965, Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
27 October 1922, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
30 August 1953, Chicago, Illinois, USA
26 April 1958, Copenhagen, Denmark
March 03, 2015
If you see only one movie in this season of blockbusters, make it Do the Right Thing.
March 03, 2015
The movie's volatile subject has overshadowed the fact that Do the Right Thing is quite funny and a technically superb picture that easily ranks as the best movie Lee has made.
March 03, 2015
This might sound like a depressing story, but the level of performance and filmmaking is so high that Do the Right Thing becomes a most entertaining warning.
July 18, 2014
[A] movie that gives us the vitality of urban street life and the viciousness of racism in a single, brightly bedecked, booby-trapped package.
March 03, 2015
Its characters are often abrasive; its language is consistently foul; and it takes a complicated view of race-related violence. Yet it's an attractive and even beguiling film in many ways, too, with large resources of humor and intelligence.
March 03, 2015
[Do the Right Thing is] an exceptional film, a movie that wisely deprives you of the cozy resolutions and epiphanies so often manufactured by Hollywood. Like the film's principals, you are left feeling that you have been torched where you live.
March 03, 2015
There's only one way to do the wrong thing about Do the Right Thing: that would be to ignore it.
March 03, 2015
Do the Right Thing is complex, bravura movie making. It is also hugely entertaining, since fortunately for us, Lee's seditious method is to use humor to carry his biting message.
March 03, 2015
Do the Right Thing is Lee's most complex, heartfelt and disturbing film to date, a drama about racism that is more shockingly outspoken than any I've seen since David Mamet's great, and neglected, Edmond.
February 04, 2014
My rowdy audience at Do The Right Thing did not cheer the riot, nor did one break out at the end. Like me, they left having seen a reflection of their own lives onscreen.
July 07, 2015
In the final analysis, the best thing one can say for Lee is that he takes risks, like all true artists. For unlike most of today's film makers, he's not afraid to really challenge a movie audience to do some serious thinking.
March 03, 2015
If Lee is saying that racism is profoundly painful, frustrating and confusing, no one will argue. But this film states the case without offering any insight.
