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Roger Ebert February 12, 1988. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. Spike Lee ’s “School Daze” is the first movie in a long time where the black characters seem to be relating to one another, instead of to a hypothetical white audience.
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On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 57%, based on 30 reviews, and an average rating of 5.8/10. The critical consensus reads: " School Daze is undeniably messy, but thought-provoking themes, strong performances, and Spike Lee's ingratiating energy help tie it all together."
1988. R. Columbia Pictures. 2 h 1 m. Summary A not so popular young man wants to pledge to a popular fraternity at his historically black college. Comedy. Drama. Musical. Directed By: Spike Lee. Written By: Spike Lee. School Daze. Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews. 52. User Score Mixed or Average Based on 6 User Ratings. 5.3.
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57% Tomatometer 30 Reviews 79% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings At historically black Mission College, the activist-minded Dap (Larry Fishburne) immerses himself in a world of political rhetoric and...
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School Daze, written, produced, and directed by Spike Lee, showed all of that as done on a Black college campus. School Daze addresses some very sensitive issues pertaining to African-Americans/Black-Americans (that's one of the issues). It's a conscious movie or, to use a '10's term, it's a woke movie.
Parents need to know that School Daze is a Spike Lee dramedy with a few musical numbers set at a fictional, historically all-Black college campus. Controversial issues are raised about racism, racial injustice, and academic and social hierarchies and disparities. There's a very problematic storyline in which….
Feb 13, 2005 · Review: School Daze. School Daze is, if nothing else, a compelling time capsule of racial politics in the late ’80s. by Eric Henderson. February 13, 2005. Widely criticized as one of the more egregious examples of Spike Lee’s spin-painting approach to telling stories, School Daze is, if nothing else, a compelling time capsule of racial ...