Audacious, vibrant, unsurprisingly maligned but frequently brilliant.

| Mar 23, 2020

Spike Lee's sharp, riotous satire, from 2000, zeroes in on the grotesque misrepresentation of blacks in American media-and their underrepresentation in the corporate offices that control it.

| Oct 26, 2015

Provocative Spike Lee movie for older teens.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 23, 2010

This is basically sloppy, all-over-the-map filmmaking with few hints of self-criticism and few genuine laughs.

| Sep 23, 2008

If Mr. Lee meant to bring back blackface entertainment as a metaphor for the current black performers he finds obnoxious, he has miscalculated.

| Apr 27, 2007

Lee's satire on American 온라인카지노추천 is an intriguing failure.

| Jan 26, 2006

It is an inspired but difficult film that poses many questions and takes almost everyone to task, yet offers few suggestions as to what is to be done with this infamous legacy.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 5, 2002

At his best, Spike Lee is too brave to be subtle.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 19, 2002

You won't look at race onscreen the same way again.

Full Review | Jun 4, 2001

Yes, Bamboozled is a picture of genuine importance. Yes, it is also crude, unstable and hazardous.

| May 30, 2001

The mix of comedy and hard-hitting outrage sits uneasily, and two-dimensional characters and performances (Wayans and Rapaport spring to mind, though Pinkett delivers a rigorous integrity) are further impediments as the film increases in hysteria.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 16, 2001

The question of where ethnic comedy stops and cruel stereotype begins also gets lost as the cast improv well beyond any given scene's point, and it can all end only with a contrived last act of kidnappings and shoot-outs with the cops.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 9, 2001

Subtlety, thy name is not Spike Lee.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

A seriously schizophrenic work made up of two incompatible movies.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

For all its messiness and meandering ... Bamboozled is impossible to dismiss.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

The fact that Lee has some compelling and interesting points to make can't make up for the movie's sluggishness, artlessness and lack of anything like originality.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Savage, abrasive, audacious and confrontational, Bamboozled is the work of a master provocateur.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

A rousing, vital, important experience.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Spike Lee challenges our preconceptions, and dares us, as Malcolm X did in the quote from which this film's title derives, not to be bamboozled.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

People's feelings run too strongly and deeply for any satirical use [of blackface] to be effective. The power of the racist image tramples over the material and asserts only itself.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000