Menace II Society
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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)
- Director: Albert Hughes
- Genre(s): Drama, Crime
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Positive: 15 out of 19
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Mixed: 3 out of 19
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Negative: 1 out of 19
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100Nothing 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.
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80May 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.
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60It 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.
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25Because 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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Positive: 7 out of 8
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Mixed: 0 out of 8
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Negative: 1 out of 8
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MACC.10This 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.
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EMael10The best film that accurately presents what goes down in today
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KeithP10This is an great film. I give this movie an A+.
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