Hugely entertaining, poignant, funny and thoughtful.

| Nov 8, 2016

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Lee doesn't reinvent the wheel when it comes to filming live theater, but he moves the camera artfully and edits with an energy that matches the music. And he makes good use of close-ups, capturing the sweaty faces of a troupe of remarkable performers.

| Original Score: A- | Oct 2, 2009

You'll probably have to resist the urge to stand up and cheer with the onscreen audience during the emotional curtain call.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 21, 2009

Spike Lee's Passing Strange: The Movie is basically canned musical theater, but this is one Tony-winning Broadway show that's well worth preserving and seeing.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 21, 2009

The invigorating result, zestily edited by Lee's own inside iron man, Barry Brown, is in every way a knockout.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 21, 2009

Moving, thrilling and new.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 21, 2009

I can't single out a performance. This is a superb ensemble, conveying that joy actors feel when hey know they're good in good material.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 20, 2009

A worthy public record of a show most people nationwide didn't get the chance to see.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 20, 2009

Like Lee, the artist formerly known as Mark Stewart possesses a powerful and singular voice, one he uses to express vividly his own unique experience of growing up as a black man in America.

| Aug 19, 2009

Passing Strange conjures a rare kind of theatrical magic with its emotionally raw, frequently euphoric portrait of the artist as a young man.

| Aug 18, 2009

The cutting is hyperkinetic, yet Lee is always in synch with the cast's phenomenal energy. He's in their thrall -- and so are we.

| Aug 17, 2009