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Never Die Alone is [Dickerson's] best work to date, with the complexity of serious fiction and the nerve to start dark and stay dark, to follow the logic of its story right down to its inevitable end.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

That the film finds its own groove is due largely to the eye of director Ernest Dickerson. Not surprisingly, he began his career as a cinematographer, working on Spike Lee’s early films.Full Review

Ruthe Stein
San Francisco Chronicle

Primarily a riveting genre film that neatly exhibits the director's growing assurance -- Donald Goines would be proud.Full Review

A.O. Scott
The New York Times

Almost everything that frames the drug dealer's tale is facile and second-rate. Simply put, you don't believe it. What you do believe is DMX's cruel charisma.Full Review

Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly

Largely overcomes key cast weaknesses to deliver a jazzy, darkly textured rendering of the ghetto pulp of late African-American ex-con author Donald Goines.Full Review

David Rooney
Variety
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