It stands proud as an early calling card for one of our most provocative, inventive directors.

| Aug 1, 2024

Stands overall as a radical, exuberant, and impressively assertive lightning bolt of an entry into the medium that Lee changed forever.

| Oct 7, 2023

Spike's first feature is a suave and toothy flick, served up pseudo-vignette with oodles of style.

| Original Score: 80/100 | Aug 27, 2021

She's Gotta Have It is cleverly crafted. Its entertainment value is not diminished by its serious notes... Spike Lee and this film will be take seriously.

| Aug 23, 2019

Nola is an unapologetic, sexually independent character who refuses to commit to a single man and resists the efforts of the men in her life to change who she is to please them.

| Dec 16, 2017

Spike Lee's breakout comedy has lots of nudity and sex.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 12, 2017

Light, scrappy entertainment that flatters everything funky and fresh about Lee, tempting you to forgive what is stunted or abrasive in the film. A major swaying element is his own on-screen persona.

| Original Score: B | Jul 11, 2011

Combining humor, drama, and documentary techniques, Lee has created an energetic film that takes an unflinching look at modern sexuality -- specifically black sexuality.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 17, 2008

All the elements of an interesting yarn are implicit here -- save one: a compelling central figure

| Mar 17, 2008

From the start, it was less important whether or not you agreed with Lee than if you appreciated him for stirring things up.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 23, 2008

She's Gotta Have It's characters talk into the camera, but they do so in service of a Rashomon-tinged postmortem on how an artistic young woman couldn't make polyamory work in her favor.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 13, 2008

New York Negro neurosis as source material for mirth, amusement and introspection, like a Woody Allen classic, only in blackface.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 12, 2008

An assured debut, which Spike Lee produced, wrote, directed, edited, and acted in, offers him opportunity to show a slice of black urban life in which white characters don't even exist; the title and heroine's name are deliberately B-porn like picture

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 13, 2007

This delightful low-budget comedy, with its all black cast and black humour, is 100 per cent Lee.

| Feb 9, 2006

A good first effort that lacks quality acting and overall polish, but compensates with insightful black man's humor.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 22, 2005

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Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 5, 2004