She Hate Me: Critic Reviews

Manages to be at once racist, homophobic, utterly fake, and unbearably tedious.

Lee carries his political exasperation beyond outrage into chaos.

This 140-minute I-don't-know- what-it-is unravels like a ball of yarn after a bout with a tiger on Colombian catnip.

Sheer agony to sit through.

Might qualify as the most misguided, ill-conceived and lamentable film of [Lee's] career.

For all his irreverence, Lee still seems uncertain how to convey deep, adult feeling without seeming obligated to feel.

Ankle-chained to the ball of Jack's depression, She Hate Me lurches from cartoonish didacticism to glum slapstick.

It's quite a paradox that someone so acutely attuned to racism would so enthusiastically embrace the worst cliches of homophobia and misogyny.

Maddening, invigorating, ridiculous, hilarious and messier than a rack of ribs without a napkin.

[Lee's] most muddled message movie to date.

The melange of plots, subplots, reveries, gags, cartoons, dirty bits, and hissy fits points to a work that is structurally modelled less on the classic narratives of cinema than on, say, a portion of Russian salad.

She Hate Me invites anger and analysis about the stereotypes it appears to celebrate; a film that attacked those stereotypes would inspire yawns.

Fun to watch and fun to think about later; it's chockful of provocative statements about corporate morality, sexual hypocrisy and what's wrong about both today.

I will not say that I liked it. I will say that like Bamboozled, it exasperates and resonates.

Two movies mashed together.

Scattered, clumsily ambitious, sexist, amateurish and just plain dumb, She Hate Me is a bad film, most likely the worst film Spike Lee has ever made.

More often than not, the sheer originality and ambition of the project carry pic, which is further bolstered by its superb ensemble cast.

May not be subtle or disciplined, but it is funny as hell.

Succeeds in finding something to offend almost everybody.

Within its messy framework there's a lot to like about She Hate Me.

Easily Lee's most disorganized movie, She Hate Me is also one of the most preposterous efforts by any major director in recent memory.

Lee, who always has an agenda, is fundamentally unsuited to satire, which has no sides, no friends, no agenda.

A mixed bag, but at least it's interesting and almost never boring.