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Crooklyn
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 16 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Drama
Written by:
Cinqué Lee
Joie Lee (also story)
Spike Lee
Directed by: Spike Lee
Release Date:
Theatrical: May 13, 1994
DVD: March 7, 2006
Running Time: 115 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for drug content
Starring Alfre Woodard, Delroy Lindo, David Patrick Kelly, Zelda Harris, Isaiah Washington, and Spike Lee
Make yourself at home with the Carmichael family as they experience one very special summer in their Brooklyn neighborhood that they've affectionately nicknamed "Crooklyn". A loving, but fiercely independent mother along with her musician husband (Delroy Lindo) struggles to raise her family in difficult but often wonderful circumstances. (Universal Studios)
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What The Critics Said
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Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
It's a movie that's so personal, naked and vulnerable that you can understand why some of its humor seems rough, some of its visuals excessive. But Crooklyn has a quality not as obvious in any Lee film since "Do the Right Thing": the sense of a whole world opening, rich and real, before your eyes. [13 May 1994, p.A]
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Crooklyn is not in any way an angry film. But thinking about the difference between its world and ours can make you angry, and I think that was one of Lee's purposes here.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
This remarkable movie will haunt you for a good long time.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
Crooklyn is a winning work whose charms far outweigh any pitfalls.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Staff (Not Credited)
While Lee fails to impose sufficient structure on his material, expertly drawn performances help vividly to evoke the family and street life of an era untroubled by crack or drive-by shootings.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
Crooklyn comes to the screen with an upbeat tone and a lot of heart. Beneath the surface of this deceptively simple motion picture lurks a keen insight.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Christopher Harris
Spike Lee's Crooklyn is a charming little movie. [14 May 1994]
Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
On its own intimate terms, it's one of the most winning films on family life to reach the screen in ages.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Janet Maslin
Messy as the semiautobiographical Crooklyn often is, it succeeds in becoming a touching and generous family portrait, a film that exposes welcome new aspects of this director's talent.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Howe
Modulating from heavy to light, from angry to lyrical, and so on, the movie's an enjoyable, emotional symphony.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Crooklyn has a warm, nostalgic, spilling-over-the-edges effusiveness that is new to Lee's work. At the same time, the movie often seems every bit as high-strung as the family it's about.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
With characters this alive, it's a pity that no one was able to build a more convincing film around them, instead of leaving everyone more or less out there on their own. [13 May 1994, p.1]
USA Today Mike Clark
Both leads and young Harris make Crooklyn an exasperating might-have-been, especially given the movie's surprisingly affecting wrap-up. There's no dearth of human feeling here, but a dearth of craft. [13 May 1994, p.8D]
Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
Despite very good performances, this is anemic and uninspired filmmaking: shapeless as narrative, awkward and drifting as drama.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann
Crooklyn is loud and raucous and occasionally cruel. The actors shout their dialogue, the kids trade insults and the movie has the strained, desperate-for-fun anxiety of a TV sitcom. [13 May 1994, p.C1]
Time Richard Schickel
Our natural sympathy for the Carmichaels is sabotaged by crude and careless moviemaking.
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