Clockers

a fascinating blend of price's gritty, procedural writing and lee's very stylized, openly emotional direction. beat david simon to similar territory he would explore in s1 of The Wire regarding the complex community relationships involved in low-level drug-dealing and the…

Josh Lewis

This is Spike Lee's RASHOMON; splintered perspectives, shifting timelines, and morally ambiguous intentions. The first hour is a masterpiece, beginning with one of the great credits sequences of all-time. I love that the reason Keitel takes such a strong interest in this…

Glenn Heath Jr.

A hot take, surely, but Spike Lee’s masterwork.

Eli Hayes

"Clockers" is a 1995 Spike Lee joint that focuses on the lower rung connection of the drug trade, connected to the respective street level doing the hustling at the transactional level with the direct user. It is interesting to see a film that dives into this premise,…

Blake Bergman "Various Spaghetti"

Delroy Lindo should have won a few awards for this.

Brian Tallerico

Action! - Spike The Power, Lee The Riot' In an alternate universe, Martin Scorsese would have put aside his passion project Casino and instead teamed up with Harvey Keitel and Richard Price, who previously wrote The Colour of Money. In our reality, however, Martin…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

"You are sellin' your own people - death!" I'm really surprised that I haven't heard more about Spike Lee's "Clockers". It's a gritty, emotional, well-written and highly effective 90's crime flick that I think I'm safe in saying is a little underrated, especially within…

MrPPeeps

Spike Lee at his most delicate and emotional. Instead of hammering a simple racism theme, he digs into the nature of crime itself, seen through three generations: a kid, a young man, and a father. The camera is wild and alive, NYC is vibrant as hell (nobody frames this city…

Taha

it's summer and we're running out of ice. brooklyncore, 90s vibe, spike lee & scorsese. isn't that enough?

emma katharine