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  • Summary: Spike Lee directs this moving portrait of a complicated, charismatic man, one who has spent his life in the spotlight, first making football history as one of the 20th century's greatest athletes, and later as the star of numerous Hollywood features, where he pioneered a new kind of African-American hero. (Film Forum)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 2 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    75
    From what we can tell, Brown was a dancer, all right, in life as well as on the field -- a dancer with a powerful forearm, one that Lee covers in protective padding.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    60
    At its most provocative, the movie explores the masculine mystique and the myth of the black stud.
  3. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Megan Lehmann
    38
    Lee gives his childhood hero altogether too much face time to defend himself against the numerous allegations and charges of assault, both physical and sexual.

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  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. BobF.
    9
    The film could have explore a little more of the dark side, just to show how far he came with Amer-i-can. Brown is the greatest athelete America ever produced, and his current work with gangs and gang violence is front page news - except in America.… Expand
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