25th Hour Critic Reviews
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The result is a film of sadness and power, the first great 21st century movie about a 21st century subject.Read the full review
The film at its simplest serves as a cautionary tale, but it also functions as a meditation on how little it takes to redirect a life by choice or by chance.Read the full review
The film is unusual for not having a plot or a payoff.Read the full review
It's deeply stylized, but there's an accompanying patience and gravity that are hard to shake. They're the architecture of a lingering, unsentimental sadness.Read the full review
Lee, as he did in ''Malcolm X'' and ''Clockers,'' makes his hero's dread palpable, and though 25th Hour lacks the glittering brilliance of those films, I was held by the toughness and pity of Lee's gaze.Read the full review
Lee has created that rarity in filmmaking: a movie we need, right now.Read the full review
In a multiplex filled with empty New Year vessels (take that, Kangaroo Jack), this holdover grabs you hard.Read the full review
Moves slowly -- it's an unhurried, talky affair that consists primarily of members of the small group of characters interacting.Read the full review
If 25th Hour does not quite work as a plausible and coherent story, it produces a wrenching, dazzling succession of moods.Read the full review
Edward Norton makes an art of self-containment. No contemporary actor gives less away to more effect, and he's at his closely held best in 25th Hour, a drama of redemption, directed by Spike Lee, that seldom rises to the level of his performance.Read the full review
