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51 out of 100

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5.5 out of 10

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  • Starring: Janet Jackson, Tupac Shakur
  • Summary: A mismatched pair pushed together on a road trip from South Central L.A. to Oakland, Justice (Jackson) and Lucky (Tupac Shakur) have only one thing in common: they can't stand each other. But as their friends Lesha and Chicago (Regina King and Joe Torry) fight and make up in the back of the van, Justice and Lucky find themselves reluctantly drawn together. After a surprising detour toward romance, the two travelers are confronted once again by the shocking violence they thought they'd left behind. (Sony Pictures)… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 20
  3. Negative: 1 out of 20
  1. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Howe
    80
    Often graceful, sometimes brilliant, Poetic is an absorbing, amusing symphony of sound and image; it also gives equal weight to its male and female characters.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Vincent Canby
    60
    Although its aspirations are high, the film works only fitfully when Mr. Singleton exercises his gift for vernacular speech, for finding the comic undertow in otherwise tragic situations, and even for parody.
  3. Time
    Reviewed by: Richard Schickel
    10
    What must be said is that the new movie is simply awful: poorly structured, vulgarly written, insipidly directed, monotonously performed.

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