Lee's movie should be credited for portraying what no other black feature film (including John Singleton's Higher Learning, Forest Whitaker's Exhale, and Lee's own previous films) has shown before: three-dimensional black gay characters.

| Apr 5, 2022

Absorbing tale of unique moment in history; strong language.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 29, 2020

The issues presented are the same as they were in years past, as well as fitting for today.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jun 18, 2020

The wonder of this funky, heartfelt film is that its humanity easily eclipses its didacticism. Working fast and cheap, Lee seems revitalized by the urgency of the endeavor.

| Feb 26, 2018

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 7, 2011

It's a simple, appealing premise and filmmaker Spike Lee uses it to full comic advantage.

| Oct 18, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 18, 2008

It all has an artless, ephemeral feel, and 20 years from now people will marvel at the fashions, the landscapes and the attitudes it captures like fragile bugs in amber.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 24, 2008

A vital regeneration of a filmmaker's talent as well as a bracing and often very funny dramatization of urgent sociopolitical themes...

Full Review | Sep 24, 2008

Bythewood's script offers sharp insights into the male psyche, and the fine actors play off one another with real assurance.

| Sep 24, 2008

Though Lee's deft expertise keeps things pacy and (mostly) plausible, the material can't avoid a certain predictability and, in the end, a preachy sentimentality.

| Feb 9, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 20, 2005

A stirring, heartfelt entertainment from the first frame to the last.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 11, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 5, 2005

Get on the Bus may well be the best film Spike Lee's made since Do the Right Thing.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 9, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 7, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 4, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 19, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 14, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 4, 2003