Bold “Chi-Raq” Means That Spike Lee’s Back
Variety gushes: ‘This sprawling, blistering state-of-the-reunion-address is Spike Lee’s most vital movie in years.’ And even Todd McCarthy over at THR is impressed: ‘Provocatively using Aristophanes’ ever-timely 2,426-year-old play “Lysistrata” as a way to address the ongoing plague of shootings on the South Side of Chicago, Spike Lee serves up an odd and teeming gumbo of political activism, broad melodrama, verse dialogue, rap music, history lessons, comedic caricature, moral guidance and steamy sex.’
