4 Little Girls is a masterpiece that needs to be seen and remembered.

| Nov 28, 2018

Only a filmmaker so resourceful, so entirely confident in his practiced craft, could have made such a quilt out of patches of nightmare and nostalgia -- of gospels, ghosts, and grief.

| Feb 1, 2018

Spike Lee has launched another perfectly timed counteroffensive: a calmly wrenching mix of oral history and period newsreels.

| Aug 20, 2009

It's presented with Lee's usual intelligence and clarity as he skilfully mixes politics with moving reminders of the lives it affects.

| Sep 22, 2008

Time and tragedy may have flattened the four girls into remote paragons of youthful virtue, but the viciousness of anti-integrationist rhetoric is palpable and should never be forgotten.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 22, 2008

There isn't an ounce of flab or hype, and the story it tells is profoundly affecting.

| Sep 22, 2008

A compelling, straightforward account of a deeply sorrowful and pivotal event in the civil rights movement.

Full Review | May 16, 2008

Lee's filmmaking ... has the beauty of simplicity and the shadings of compassion.

| Original Score: A | Jul 23, 2007

Spike Lee's Oscar-nominated documentary, about one of the defining moments of the civil rights movement, balances personal and painful memories of many witnesses with a poignantly political expose of the event, the murder of four innocent girls.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 3, 2006

The big part of Lee's film commemorates the lives of the '4 little girls' who died, through the memories of parents, siblings and friends.

| Jan 26, 2006

Some of the credit for the two convictions may well be due to Spike Lee's memorable 1997 documentary...which brought new attention to the case.

| Sep 16, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 25, 2004

Immensely gripping in its outrage and poignancy. Nobody knows how to bring the disdain of racial to the forefront like the skilled Spike Lee

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 24, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 6, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 6, 2004

a clear example that film auteurs can handle a variety of genres when inspired

| Original Score: A- | Apr 11, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 26, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 26, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000

There is mostly sadness and regret at the surface in 4 Little Girls, but there is anger in the depths, as there should be.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000