Lee's film has moments that are near incendiary in their anger, and it's the rare American film that can honestly be said to make audiences think, and re-think.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 9, 2023

An excessive film, but cinematographically exciting. [Full review in Spanish]

| Dec 8, 2022

A surprisingly awful movie from a generally superb filmmaker.

| Original Score: C- | Aug 31, 2022

Jungle Fever has all the familiar flourishes of a Spike Lee Joint-a swelling soundtrack, floating walking sequences, a warm filter. But, here, Lee looks to a thorny, nebulous topic...

| Dec 9, 2021

The ingrained self-hatred of its characters reflect outward toward those who remind them of themselves.

| Jun 23, 2016

However diffuse the movie's agenda, it is never less than thoroughly involving.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 21, 2015

In that sense, Lee is a victim of his own high standard.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 21, 2015

Jungle Fever is so many graceful things, so many angry things, so many truly moving things that its occasional faults are the faults of excess passion, not failure of imagination.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 21, 2015

Strong and powerful, Jungle Fever dares us to be disinterested, dares us to turn away.

| Apr 21, 2015

It's all too much for Lee to handle. Jungle Fever is overlong, yet he hasn't found the screen time to give each of these people his or her reasons, and even the Snipes and Sciorra characters slip away from him.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 21, 2015

Jungle Fever is confidently acted, brilliantly written and thoroughly provocative. Lee has succeeded again.

| Apr 21, 2015

It certainly is something to see.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 21, 2015

You'll remember Sciorra and Snipes but wish you had learned more about them -- and the society that complicates their lives so cruelly.

| Apr 21, 2015

Isn't it refreshing to talk about a thoughtful movie in a summer full of fluff?

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 21, 2015

Jungle Fever may be a failure, but it is the kind of failure that engenders hope: It finds Lee refining the skills he already possesses and striking out in encouraging new directions.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 21, 2015

Lee's direction is wonderfully fluid and, as in most of his movies, he is superbly served by the striking cinematography of Ernest Dickerson and strong lead performances. However, there is a glibness to his script.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 21, 2015

Weaknesses aside, Jungle Fever remains the most thoughtful, provocative, and deeply felt statement on race problems and gender relations to arrive on screen in a very long time -- and the funniest and most entertaining to boot.

| Apr 21, 2015

A thematic follow up to Do the Right Thing, this is a powerful melodrama about the fatal and fateful effects of interracial romance.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 28, 2013

Snipes, it's clear, is a major actor.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 7, 2011

Lee brings a shotgun to a knife fight, but his visual energy is undeniably effective, spraying the screen with venom and appalling realities, with most of the feature locked in confessional mode.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 9, 2011