Ten minutes into She Hate Me I knew it was a bad film, 20 minutes in I knew it was offensively -- to its audience -- poor, 30 minutes in I began to wonder how it was that the producers hadn't pulled the plug on it when they saw the rushes.

| Jan 8, 2018

She Hate Me isn't subversive, it's insipid.

| Jun 28, 2013

This extremely graphic movie is not for kids.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 28, 2010

The politest way to assess Spike Lee's latest polemic is to call it too ambitious. 'An unholy mess' might come closer to the truth.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Oct 19, 2004

Attractively cast and at times amusing, but it's undermined by a plot that doesn't make sense and plays like three-and- a-half genre movies fighting for screentime in one overlong one.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 25, 2004

If this is a subtle inversion of the sex wars it passed clear over my head as Anthony Mackie grunts his way through five ecstatic women a night

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 23, 2004

Fascinating from start to finish.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 14, 2004

[Lee's] most muddled message movie to date.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 3, 2004

Less a joint than a high-rise built on a wobbly foundation.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 31, 2004

Lee presumably had two ideas, one an expos of pharmaceutical greed, the other a sex comedy: then he decided that neither one would make a film in itself and came up with the lame idea of combining them.

Full Review | Aug 28, 2004

Two movies mashed together.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 26, 2004

Spike Lee's She Hate Me is about as awful as a film can be without being the ultimate awful, which is boring.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 20, 2004

Scattered, clumsily ambitious, sexist, amateurish and just plain dumb, She Hate Me is a bad film, most likely the worst film Spike Lee has ever made.

Full Review | Original Score: F | Aug 20, 2004

Might qualify as the most misguided, ill-conceived and lamentable film of [Lee's] career.

| Aug 20, 2004

Sheer agony to sit through.

| Aug 20, 2004

It's not only unfathomable and borderline offensive, it's never-ending, leaving its bewildered and battered audience in the dark for well over two hours.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 20, 2004

Finally, a movie that can vie with Gigli as the worst feature of the new millennium.

Full Review | Original Score: F | Aug 19, 2004

Maddening, invigorating, ridiculous, hilarious and messier than a rack of ribs without a napkin.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 19, 2004

It's a muddled, overlong, politically incorrect satire that goes wrong in so many ways it's hard to know where to begin dismantling the thing.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 19, 2004

I will not say that I liked it. I will say that like Bamboozled, it exasperates and resonates.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 19, 2004