Spike Lee's most un-Spike Lee film, results in a powerful and profound (post-9/11) story. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 28, 2025

25th Hour doesn’t give you an easy answer, because there are none. [...] Pressure can make us heroes or cowards, criminals or saints, traitors or loyal partners. The choice is only up to us.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 19, 2024

What would have been a simple story with meandering dialogues is strangely transformed into something special and profound, largely due to some interesting directional choices, powerful imagery, Norton’s commitment, and...a beautiful score.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 9, 2024

There’s a clunkiness to the rant montage, and yet it is also so heartfelt, so loving.

| Jul 31, 2023

It seems Spike has the most to say with his camera when he has the least to do with the screenplay.

| Original Score: 88/100 | Aug 27, 2021

Another un-Spike Spike Lee joint, and probably Lee's greatest film that doesn't deal head-on with the matter of race.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 29, 2020

Spike Lee's latest-his 20th feature including 온라인카지노추천 work-is at long last the raging masterpiece many have suspected him capable of. 25th Hour eclipses everything he's done before, including Do the Right Thing...

| Mar 16, 2020

This sprawling and ecletic work from Spike Lee has, in a sense, more going for it in the ragged fringes of its story than in its slightly awkward, pre-determined centre.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 1, 2019

A reminder of how human beings can lose their humanity in the face of grief and tragedy but can find it again through helping others rather than turning a blind eye. It's an important work of art.

| Oct 31, 2018

It's an odd movie, maybe odder than it should have been if this is Lee's attempt to make a more widely accessible, less issue-based movie.

| Jan 3, 2018

If you're in any way a Spike Lee fan, check this out.

| Original Score: A | Sep 12, 2017

Profoundly suffused with an aura of loss.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 19, 2017

there is still plenty of angst saturating the film

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 10, 2016

Spike Lee's furiously melancholy drama about life and dread in post-9/11 New York City.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 18, 2014

Engaging but violent drama. Not for kids.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 2, 2011

Finds beauty in the silver linings and embodies the notion that we're stronger than we usually realize we can be.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 7, 2010

One of Spike Lee's best films...

| Apr 29, 2009

Lee successfully, seamlessly marries his famously inventive visual style with more introspective material.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 18, 2009

Lee builds Monty's story of tortured introspection and his final surprising, desperate act before incarceration through boldly candid conversations and flashbacks.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 27, 2007