
A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.... (Full plot summary below)
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A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.
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| Boston GlobeJay Carr[Lee's] work is less strident here, more controlled, less in-your-face explosive than for instance “Do the Right Thing,” but for all of that, no less penetrating, no less troubling. Given his passion, there’s no way it could be otherwise. |
| New York TimesVincent CanbyLee is so adept that he is able to transcend the symmetry that the narrative more or less imposes on him. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatSpike Lee's disturbing film about the racial, gender, class, and social tensions in urban America. |
| Montreal Film JournalKevin N. LaforestA smart, very assured film about interracial relations but also about racial misconceptions in general. |
| People MagazineRalph NovakYou'll remember Sciorra and Snipes but wish you had learned more about them -- and the society that complicates their lives so cruelly. |
| Deseret News (Salt Lake City)Chris HicksThere's no question that this is Lee's most ambitious and successful work so far, but it will be nice if, in the future, he has enough confidence in his story to let down even more of his affectations. |
| NewsweekDavid AnsenIn some of its most powerful sequences, Lee addresses the devastating impact of crack. In Jungle Fever, he is stretching his imaginative grasp (his women have much stronger voices than usual) and refining his technique. |
| Baltimore SunStephen HunterJungle Fever is so many graceful things, so many angry things, so many truly moving things that its occasional faults are the faults of excess passion, not failure of imagination. Most importantly, it seethes with life, unlike nearly every other movie out of Hollywood these days. |
| BrianOrndorf.comBrian OrndorfLee brings a shotgun to a knife fight, but his visual energy is undeniably effective, spraying the screen with venom and appalling realities, with most of the feature locked in confessional mode. |
| Chicago TribuneGene SiskelAnother important, risk-taking film from Spike Lee. |