Get On the Bus: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 1 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 42 reviews

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Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

75

Full Review » 16 years ago
Janet Maslin New York Times (Top Critic)

While the film assembles a full array of black male stereotypes and conines them to what is essentially a talky one-set play, Mr. Lee stylistically jump-starts this small, earnest film in every way he can.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Mike Clark USA Today (Top Critic)

88

If the movie finally doesn't know when to quit, its flaws are those of enthusiasm and heart.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Washington Post (Top Critic)

Full Review » 4 years ago
Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

Full Review » 4 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

100

If the movie's central sadness is that we identify with our own group and suspect outsiders, the movie's message is that we have been given brains to learn to empathize.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Susan Stark Detroit News (Top Critic)

50

Full Review » 4 years ago
Todd McCarthy Variety (Top Critic)

A vital regeneration of a filmmaker's talent as well as a bracing and often very funny dramatization of urgent sociopolitical themes...
Full Review » 4 years ago
Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

75

Full Review » 10 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

75

An involving, intimate portrait of a group of men gathered for a common purpose.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

It's successful at holding our interest -- at making us care, and believe.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Film4

Bythewood's script offers sharp insights into the male psyche, and the fine actors play off one another with real assurance.
Full Review » 4 years ago
TV Guide's Movie Guide

75

It all has an artless, ephemeral feel, and 20 years from now people will marvel at the fashions, the landscapes and the attitudes it captures like fragile bugs in amber.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Geoff Andrew Time Out

Though Lee's deft expertise keeps things pacy and (mostly) plausible, the material can't avoid a certain predictability and, in the end, a preachy sentimentality.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Linda Cook Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

100

Full Review » 7 years ago
Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com

100

A stirring, heartfelt entertainment from the first frame to the last.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com

60

Full Review » 7 years ago
Laura Clifford Reeling Reviews

84

Get on the Bus may well be the best film Spike Lee's made since Do the Right Thing.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

60

Full Review » 7 years ago
Sarah Chauncey Reel.com

60

Full Review » 8 years ago
Daniel M. Kimmel Worcester Telegram & Gazette

60

Full Review » 8 years ago
Carol Cling Las Vegas Review-Journal

80

Full Review » 9 years ago
Mike McGranaghan Aisle Seat

80

Full Review » 9 years ago
Susan Tavernetti Palo Alto Weekly

75

Enough lively banter and music, good humor and serious issues are aboard...to make the 3,000-mile journey worth joining.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Luke Y. Thompson New Times

100

One of Lee's best -- save for the didactic opening credits, he's rarely been less preachy and more insightful
Full Review » 9 years ago