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9.1 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 32 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 31 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 32
  3. Negative: 1 out of 32

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  1. Shane
    Jan 10, 2006
    9
    This movie shows a good way of how life is in the hood! Good actors.
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  2. DanielT.
    Sep 19, 2004
    9
    Very very realistic.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. SavanahL.
    May 24, 2005
    9
    I think this movie was a great depiction of a ghetto drama like what goes on in my neighborhood sheepshead bay.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  4. SusanC.
    Sep 9, 2005
    10
    Very realistic to what goes on in other areas of real peoples lives that people take for grated and do not believe things like this really existent. "but it does" Very positive message!!!! Great film!!!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  5. EdR.
    Jul 7, 2006
    10
    A great movie. One question though: is South Central LA still like this? I remember in Michael Moore's film "Bowling for Columbine" how he and another white man (a professor I think) basically pour scorn on the idea that Compton is some kind of war zone. I wonder what a modern day African American kid would say?
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  6. GilbertMulroneycakesAndTheTempleOfDoom
    Nov 26, 2002
    10
    You know, some call it preachy? Preachy. Well, it makes a significant social point in a devastatingly powerful way; I suppose that could constitute preachiness, if you're formed out of concrete. And are a cretin.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  7. LisaR.
    May 7, 2003
    10
    This movie is very realistic.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  8. FernandoG.
    Nov 24, 2003
    10
    Increase the peace. Watch this film.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  9. AnthonyV.
    Dec 27, 2004
    10
    Best Movie Ever!!!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  10. ohsnapkid
    Nov 7, 2010
    10
    Devastatingly realistic, but handled deftly. The characters aren't just devices used to propel some preachy, self-righteous message: they elicit true emotions in the viewer and provide faces to what a lot of people had ignored.
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Metascore
73 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 18 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 18
  3. Negative: 0 out of 18
  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    70
    Yes, the denouement is disturbing, but it is rather too calculatedly so, and too insistently underlined by an overly sentimental Stanley Clarke score. [12 July 1991]
  2. Time
    Reviewed by: Richard Schickel
    100
    Remarkable. [22 July 1991]
  3. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Thomson
    70
    It will often tear at the heart too -- at least, when it doesn't feel like the rap equivalent of a classroom lecture.
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