Chi-Raq (Blu-ray) R
No peace. No piece.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 33 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 26, 2016
- Originally Released: 2015
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Nick Cannon, Teyonah Parris, Wesley Snipes, Jennifer Hudson, Angela Bassett, John Cusack & Samuel L. Jackson | |
| Performer: | D.B. Sweeney, Harry Lennix, La La Anthony, Steve Harris, David Patrick Kelly, Isiah Whitlock, Jr. & Dave Chappelle | |
| Directed by | Spike Lee | |
| Composition by | Terence Blanchard | |
| Produced by | Spike Lee | |
| Director of Photography: | Matthew Libatique |
Entertainment Reviews:
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50%
Rating: 4/5 --
Chi-raq is powerful, even heart-breaking stuff wrapped in a dark, hip-hop musical comedy.
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We Are Movie Geeks
4 stars out of 4 -- It is the director's first straight-up, unabashed musical since SCHOOL DAZE, his best work in at least ten years, and a culmination of tendencies we've seen percolating in his work since his 1986 debut feature SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT.
RogerEbert.com
It's inspiring to see a talent of Lee's caliber swing for the fences. Chi-Raq may not be perfect, but I can't stop thinking about it.
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Memphis Flyer
Rating: 4/5 --
Through music, celebrity and sheer pizzazz, Chi-Raq uses every weapon in its arsenal to get cinema-goers to reflect on the state of the nation. Urgent, clever and a lot of fun, Spike Lee's latest is a classic in the making.
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Dog and Wolf
Rating: B --
Spike Lee has a way of making anger incredibly thoughtful as well as entertaining.
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Fresh Fiction
Rating: 3/5 --
It's a mess. But it makes an impression. Chi-Raq has the force of topical-art inevitability. If it didn't exist, you feel, someone would have had to invent it.
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Financial Times
Rating: 3/4 --
Lee returns to engaging, enraged form with Chi-Raq, combining social commentary, anger, humour, dramatics and over-the-top style in a sometimes messy mix that uses every trick necessary to put a spotlight on America's poisonous love affair with guns.
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Toronto Star
Product Description:
In Spike Lee's modern-day adaptation of Aristophanes' play Lysistrata, a gang leader's girlfriend (Teyonah Parris) is called to action after a child is killed by a stray bullet. She convinces a group of women to help put an end to the violence in Chicago's South Side by taking a vow of abstinence, which will only end when their men decide to bring peace to the city. Nick Cannon, Wesley Snipes, Samuel L. Jackson, Jennifer Hudson, and Angela Bassett co-star.
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