SummaryMake yourself at home with the Carmichael family as they experience one very special summer in their Brooklyn neighborhood that they've affectionately nicknamed "Crooklyn". A loving, but fiercely independent mother along with her musician husband (Delroy Lindo) struggles to raise her family in difficult but often wonderful circumstances. [Univers... Read More
Directed By:Spike Lee
Written By:Joie Lee, Spike Lee, Cinqué Lee
Crooklyn
Metascore
Generally Favorable
65
User score
Generally Favorable
6.7
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
65
69% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
19% Mixed
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13% Negative
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It's a movie that's so personal, naked and vulnerable that you can understand why some of its humor seems rough, some of its visuals excessive. But Crooklyn has a quality not as obvious in any Lee film since "Do the Right Thing": the sense of a whole world opening, rich and real, before your eyes. [13 May 1994, p.A]
78
Crooklyn is a winning work whose charms far outweigh any pitfalls.
75
On its own intimate terms, it's one of the most winning films on family life to reach the screen in ages.
70
Both annoying and vibrant, casually plotted and deeply personal, Spike Lee’s Crooklyn ends up being as compelling as it is messy.
67
Crooklyn has a warm, nostalgic, spilling-over-the-edges effusiveness that is new to Lee's work. At the same time, the movie often seems every bit as high-strung as the family it's about.
50
Both leads and young Harris make Crooklyn an exasperating might-have-been, especially given the movie's surprisingly affecting wrap-up. There's no dearth of human feeling here, but a dearth of craft. [13 May 1994, p.8D]
20
Our natural sympathy for the Carmichaels is sabotaged by crude and careless moviemaking.
User score
Generally Favorable
6.7
47% Positive
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47% Mixed
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7% Negative
1 Rating
1 Rating
Sep 26, 2011
5
Touching at times, yes, funny, even more so, but ultimately boring, and when not boring, annoying. Actually the superb child actors and the great 70s soundtrack are the only things that make it worthwhile.
Rather go for Do The Right Thing.
Production Company:
- Universal Pictures
- 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks
- Child Hood Productions
Release Date:May 13, 1994
Duration:1 h 55 m
Rating:PG-13
Awards
Young Artist Awards
• 2 Nominations
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
• 1 Nomination
