Bleek Gilliam is a talented and self-centred jazz trumpeteer, whose single-minded concentration on his music leaves many, especially the women in his life, scrambling for his attention. Bleek forms his own band The Bleek Gilliam Quartet, and a rivalry emerges with bandmate Shadow that threatens to tear apart the quartet.... (Full plot summary below)
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Bleek Gilliam is a talented and self-centred jazz trumpeteer, whose single-minded concentration on his music leaves many, especially the women in his life, scrambling for his attention. Bleek forms his own band The Bleek Gilliam Quartet, and a rivalry emerges with bandmate Shadow that threatens to tear apart the quartet.
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| VarietyVariety StaffPersonal rather than social issues come to the fore in Mo' Better Blues, a Spike Lee personality piece dressed in jazz trappings that puffs itself up like Bird but doesn't really fly. |
| Orlando SentinelJay BoyarMo' Better Blues is not a great film, but it's an interesting one, which is almost as rare. |
| Chicago TribuneGene SiskelA messy but nonetheless compelling movie. |
| Capital Times (Madison, WI)Rob ThomasAtmospheric character study by Lee with a bravely unlikable Denzel Washington. |
| DVDLaserDouglas PrattSpike Lee's film is filled with promising ideas and moments of technical virtuosity. |
| Empire MagazineCharles Shaar MurrayIts tight, suspenseful, funny and packed with great music. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleMo’ Better Blues repeatedly draws back from its characters, exchanging intimacy for shtick and, in the end, lapsing into half-baked psychodrama. |
| Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittI wish Mo' Better Blues were a little mo' better than it is, but Spike Lee remains a major filmmaking talent, and even his second-best work has an awful lot going for it. |
| BrianOrndorf.comBrian OrndorfIt's a burning, feeling film of impulses, bringing out the best in the filmmaker, who used to create miniature moviegoing events with his releases, before He Got Game came along and smothered his good taste. |
| Washington PostDesson ThomsonFew will accuse Spike Lee's Mo' Better Blues of being a masterpiece. But it's still full of the things that make Spike Lee films, well, Spike Lee films. Full of the fun, full of the spirit. |
