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9.1 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 17 Ratings

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  3. Negative: 1 out of 17

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  1. DanP.
    Apr 8, 2005
    10
    BEST FILM EVER.
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  2. MACC.
    Jan 8, 2006
    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.
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  3. EMael
    Feb 13, 2006
    10
    The best film that accurately presents what goes down in today’s inner cities. This is not a fabricated story, it is the real deal, trust me I know. I am an uprising director from the rough streets of Oakland.
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  4. KeithP
    Sep 15, 2009
    10
    This is an great film. I give this movie an A+.
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  5. YoonC.
    Sep 22, 2003
    1
    A dimwitted gangster movie posing as investigation of urban spiritual blight; the successive films of the Hughes Brothers--Dead Presidents and American Pimp--should make clear what a couple of sleazebags these clowns are. Characters here are clunky stereotypes, situations are lame and embarassing imitations of Scorsese's films. The violence begins shockingly enough but soon degenerates into John Woo style bloodfests. Worse, like John Singleton Hugh Brothers too often resort to sermonizing. Hugh brothers have said "If you hate black people, you'll hate this movie. If you're a liberal...(it'll provoke thought)". Better formulation would be if you're a no talent and a black director, the result will be a dumb pile of crap drooled over by white critics out of guilt more than by critical acumen. For great films on this subject check out Small Time or Straight Out of Brooklyn, both of which are more honest and direct without the smug self-satisfied moral dereliction of the hubris driven Hugh brothers.… Expand
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  6. GaborA.
    Feb 17, 2004
    8
    The best of its genre. A ghetto comentary with character, plot, and emotion. A perfect mix of street violence and street drama.
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  7. vatok.
    Jul 27, 2005
    10
    Cabrone this waz down right gangsta.
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Metascore
76 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 19
  3. Negative: 1 out of 19
  1. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Rosenbaum
    70
    This shocking, violent, and unsentimental (albeit sensationalized) drama about a second-generation drug dealer (Turner) and the callous world he lives in, produced by "To Sleep With Anger's" Darin Scott, is terrifically acted.
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  2. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Thomson
    80
    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.
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  3. ReelViews
    Reviewed by: James Berardinelli
    88
    Menace II Society has a devastating impact. Few films possess the power to keep an audience sitting in stunned silence after the end credits begin rolling, but this is one of them.
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