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07/29/04
She Hate Me (2004)
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Reviews Counted:97
Fresh:19
Rotten:78
Average Rating:3.9/10
Consensus: She Hate Me can't decide if it wants to be a commentary on corporate greed or a sex farce.
Runtime: 2 hrs 20 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Harvard, MBA-educated biotech executive John Henry "Jack" Armstrong (Anthony Mackie) gets fired when he informs on his bosses and initiates an investigation into their business dealings by the... [More]
Starring: Kerry Washington, Anthony Mackie, Ellen Barkin, Monica Bellucci
Director: Spike Lee
Reviews for She Hate Me
This intensely topical satire tackles a wide range of important issues, from corporate whistle-blowing to the toll sexual license takes on stable family structures.
07/29/04
A distillation of rhetoric that never gets properly shaped, compounded by various on-screen speeches that leave the audience feeling taught, talked down to and criticized.
07/29/04
If you're going to make a political statement, back it up. Don't give us this half-baked, atrociously acted, tin-eared, five-films-in-one, everything you want to know about sex, three's company, heather has two mommies fiasco.
07/29/04
Targets 'the decline of ethics ... from the boardroom to the bedroom,' and misses on both fronts.
07/28/04
This 140-minute I-don't-know- what-it-is unravels like a ball of yarn after a bout with a tiger on Colombian catnip.
07/28/04
Lee's shrill, juvenile polemic crams ideas about corporate greed, same-sex parenting and racial stereotypes into a narrative torn from the video store's adult-movie section.
07/28/04
When a Spike Lee film doesn't fly, it sinks like a stone. This one is Gibraltar.
07/28/04
At 2 1/2 hours running time, you get more than you bargained for in sheer befuddlement.
07/28/04
It seems as if She Hate Me is two different stories spliced together, with cross-purposed tones and topics.
07/28/04
May not be subtle or disciplined, but it is funny as hell.
07/28/04
It's quite a paradox that someone so acutely attuned to racism would so enthusiastically embrace the worst clichés of homophobia and misogyny.
07/28/04
When it comes to social issues, Lee is fiercely, admirably activist, but when it comes to sex, he plays into stereotypes and myths that are all the more easily reinforced because they occur in a raucously comic context.
07/28/04
Top CriticManages to be at once racist, homophobic, utterly fake, and unbearably tedious.
07/28/04
Forget the politics, bawdy humor wins out.
07/28/04
Lee carries his political exasperation beyond outrage into chaos.
07/28/04
Top CriticThis gonzo 140-minute omnibus reserves a scene or two for any social or political concern you'd care to mention.
07/27/04
More often than not, the sheer originality and ambition of the project carry pic, which is further bolstered by its superb ensemble cast.
07/27/04
Top CriticAnkle-chained to the ball of Jack's depression, She Hate Me lurches from cartoonish didacticism to glum slapstick.
07/27/04
A mixed bag, but at least it's interesting and almost never boring.
07/27/04
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