A teeming showcase of invigorating performances...

| Mar 3, 2023

The problem isn’t with School Daze; the problem is with a white culture that cannot deal with the spectacle of blacks on-screen on their own terms.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 11, 2022

Lee has a small, intimate talent; here, he goes for the big podium and blows it.

| Jun 24, 2006

The film's central argument is that black matriculation is undercut by internal divisions.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 13, 2005

For every tough-minded confrontation between the different student factions, School Daze is apt to offer a love scene less than vital to the plot, or an overlong musical scene whose effect is that of treading water.

Full Review | May 20, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 4, 2002

School Daze, with its pompous patchwork plot, is an arrogant, humorless, sexist mess.

| Jan 1, 2000

Spike Lee had something in mind while he shot School Daze, his follow-up to the cult hit She's Gotta Have It. Unfortunately it's still lodged behind his cranium.

| Jan 1, 2000

Although the film has big structural problems and leaves a lot of loose ends, there was never a moment when it didn't absorb me.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000