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Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critics What's this?

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Universal acclaim- based on 20 Ratings

  • Starring: Larenz Tate, Tyrin Turner
  • Summary: A Watts teenager becomes so immersed in his violent world, he can't get out. (New Line Cinema)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 19
  2. Negative: 1 out of 19
  1. 100
    Nothing the Hughes brothers have done in their videos for Tone Loc, Tupac Shakur and others prepares you for the controlled intensity and maturity they bring to their stunning feature debut.
  2. May just be the best in its genre… Entertainment and radical street preaching, all rolled into one. If it tells black kids not to try this at home, it also revels cinematically in blam-blam-you're-dead. This is what makes the movie maddening -- and what gives it strength.
  3. Reviewed by: Staff (Non Credited)
    60
    It lacks the vision, and the fully defined characters, of "Boyz (in the Hood)." Tyrin never becomes more than the sum of his conflicting impulses--he's a composite sample of a social group rather than a fully-fledged individual.
  4. Because the society in Menace II Society is boxed in sociologically, the picture (for all its strengths) is boxed in esthetically. Already, this genre is beginning to seem as much a victim as the victims it portrays.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 8
  3. Negative: 1 out of 8
  1. MACC.
    10
    This movie is the best movie I ever saw, I was born in Cali but I didnt know it was that hard but that movie was cool.
  2. EMael
    10
    The best film that accurately presents what goes down in today
  3. KeithP
    10
    This is an great film. I give this movie an A+.
  4. this movie is great here's some point about the movie : Menace II Society: is a hood film and the directorial debut of twin brothers Allen and Albert Hughes. It follows the life of a hoodlum named Caine Lawson and his close friends. The film gained notoriety for its scenes of violence, profanity, and drug-related content. Menace II Society was critically Expand

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