Menace II Society

Tumbling late into the ghetto genre, this supreme example of the type is a cut above the rest care of its visceral pseudo-documentary style and passion for its subject.

Menace II Society is as well-directed a film as you'll see from America this year, an unsentimental and yet completely involving story of a young man who cannot see a way around his fate.

...a masterful step-by-step primer on what not to do and how not to be that still rings with truth.

...a powerful indictment of what life has become for a black man in the inner city, and how the only escape through violence is into the grave.

MENACE chronicles the short, hopeless life of Caine (...), a small-time drugdealer with a vague, barely articulated desire to escape his surroundings.