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December 4, 2015

At the Movies: Spike Lee's blistering ‘Chi-Raq' burns with rage

By JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer


CHI-RAQ

Director: Spike Lee

Cast: Nick Cannon, Teyonah Parris, Samuel Jackson, Wesley Snipes, John Cusack

Rating: R

Running time: 127 minutes

More alive than most of the year's films put together, Spike Lee's “Chi-Raq” is urgent agitprop that pulsates with unalloyed rage for the “self-inflicted genocide” of South Chicago and explodes with full-hearted (and gloriously lewd) pleas for peace.


 
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