School Daze

Spike is this a musical or not? You gotta pick one

Patrick Willems

Even now, thirty years later, there aren’t many films like SCHOOL DAZE. It’s a big, overstuffed movie, crackling with its director’s obsessions and preoccupations, from the MGM musicals of the 1950s to the politics of the post-civil rights generation of African Americans…

Jamelle Bouie

a very colorful, musical, expressive college film where the very act of expression and having a voice is maximized to its most joyous, stylistic extreme, but not without the context of who is historically denied that joy and why.

Josh Lewis

one of the most thoughtful school-set films ever made. if you see this as just an 80s bro comedy, you’re missing the point.

jourdain searles

larry fishburne is so hot in this

pilot

In the wake of campus protesting in support of Palestine, we are seeing some of the most principled and organized college students since the Vietnam War. It’s heartening to see the students of America stand firmly against genocide and apartheid. The young people of today…

jourdain searles

probably the biggest takeaway from this movie for me is the kfc scene. as intense and complex as the struggles in our lives are and as much as effort we put into trying to change complex systems that barely still work, we’re all still in a bubble. problems exist outside our…

tru

I’ve seen fourteen Spike Lee films through the years, but I feel like unless you are bound and determined to watch every film Lee’s made, there will always be blind spots. And wow. School Daze was a big one. This film explodes with energy from the first frame, and it never…

DallasFrance

A few notes I didn't fit into my full review: - Ossie Davis' locker-room speech/sermon as Mission's football coach should be shown at the start of every NFL season for the way it brilliantly lampoons America's conflation of football and religion - I want the sequel to…

Josh Larsen