Clockers

The story of a young black drug dealer who may or may not have committed a murder, Clockers is a work of staggering intelligence and emotional force — a mosaic of broken dreams.

The most interesting aspect (...) is the diversity of attitudes and lives Lee and co-writer Price suggest in the community beyond Rodney’s druggies...

...Clockers is not a shriek of despair. Lee finds poetry and humor in all of his stories, and even in Strike's ordeal there is a quietly human refrain...

Spike Lee's adaptation of a solid, if overpraised, crime novel by Richard Price (...) is slickly made and well acted.