Todd McCarthy The most striking, urgent, up-to-the-minute film I’ve seen this week was directed by Spike Lee. It speaks to the moment, pulses with turbulent emotional and political currents, overflows with vibrant characters and bluntly confronts society’s painful unfinished business.
No, I’m not talking about Da 5 Bloods but, rather, Do the Right Thing.Yes, that’s right, Do the Right Thing, which is 31 years old (!) but looks and sounds as though it could have been made this year.
Even if they’ve remained dramatically and politically relevant after two or three decades, most films show their age one way or the other, through costumes, hairstyles, attitudes, musical choices, outdated slang and language usage or, at the very least, the age.
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