| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 30, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 1, 2003

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 10, 2003

True to its title, this hip-hop When Harry Met Sally is plenty sweet, but is that what we really want from a film set in the world of rap music?

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 19, 2002

It's predictable, but it jumps through the expected hoops with style and even some depth.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Oct 26, 2002

You don't have to know about music to appreciate the film's easygoing blend of comedy and romance.

| Oct 11, 2002

Makes the sweet case that sincerity strikes the biggest romantic sparks.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 11, 2002

Lathan and Diggs make an immensely likable couple, and the supporting cast strikes all the right notes.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 11, 2002

Takes every convention of the romantic comedy genre and turns it on its ear.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 11, 2002

The movie plays cute more than smart, but it's far from dumb -- and marks yet another baby step forward in the growing sophistication of African-American film.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 11, 2002

The movie's attention to cultural context really does separate it from anything that came before, including the winning, but finally irrelevant, When Harry Met Sally...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 11, 2002

Too much about Brown Sugar is carried out with utmost decorum, as if writer-director Rick Famuyiwa were bringing hip-hop home to meet the parents.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 11, 2002

Bland if amiable.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 11, 2002

Taye Diggs never overdoes Dre's intensity or integrity; he's an understated leading man who is all the more likable because of it. But it's Sanaa Lathan as Sidney who won my heart here.

| Oct 11, 2002

A romantic comedy, yes, but one with characters who think and talk about their goals, and are working on hard decisions.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 11, 2002

There's something unintentionally comic in the film's drumbeat about authenticity, given the stale plot and pornographic way the film revels in swank apartments, clothes and parties.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 11, 2002

You could do worse than watch beautiful people making kissy-face with each other.

| Oct 10, 2002

Sustains the charm of an early 60's New York romance.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2002

As satisfying as it is sleek, and Famuyiwa inspires carefully nuanced portrayals from his cast.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 10, 2002

What really breaks this movie out of the romantic-comedy rut is the setting in which it's told.

| Original Score: B | Oct 10, 2002