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"The richest and most thorough cinematic exploration of an American aiment I fear may eventually be the end of us." - Sean Burns, The ARTery 

"There's only one way to do the wrong thing about Do the Right Thing: that would be to ignore it." - Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

"Complex, bravura moviemaking." - Sheila Benson, Los Angeles Times

"I have been given only a few filmgoing experiences in my life to equal the first time I saw “Do the Right Thing.” Most movies remain up there on the screen. Only a few penetrate your soul. In May of 1989 I walked out of the screening at the Cannes Film Festival with tears in my eyes. Spike Lee had done an almost impossible thing. He'd made a movie about race in America that empathized with all the participants. He didn't draw lines or take sides but simply looked with sadness at one racial flashpoint that stood for many others." - Roger Ebert

Set on one block of Brooklyn's Bed-Stuy Do or Die neighborhood, at the height of summer, this 1989 masterpiece by Spike Lee confirmed him as a writer and filmmaker of peerless vision and passionate social engagement. Over the course of a single day, the easygoing interactions of a cast of unforgettable characters - Da Mayor, Mother Sister, Mister Senor Love Daddy, Tiny, Sweet Dick Willie, Buggin Out, Radio Raheem, Sal, Pino, Vito and Lee's Mookie among them - give way to heated confrontations as tensions arise along racial fault lines, ultimately exploding into violence. Punctuated by the anthemic regrain of Public Enemy's "Fight the Power," Do the Right Thing is a landmark in American cinema, as politically and emotionally charged and relevant now as when it first hit the big screen. (Criterion Collection)