Black and White 2002

Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more

Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: A rambling, often silly and insightful, thoroughly entertaining story about upper-crust white teens in New York. Read more

Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: A hard-driven, fascinating affair. Read more

Steve Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Black and White is defeated by its structural shapelessness, and a down-with-it attitude that glosses over the script's lack of any real analysis of hip-hop's cultural influence. Read more

Steven Rosen, Denver Post: Don't let the title fool you - nothing about this movie is as simple as black and white. Read more

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Jack Kroll, Newsweek: Maverick moviemaker James Toback (Two Girls and a Guy) has latched on to the most fascinating cultural phenomenon of the American moment. Read more

Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: The aliveness that Toback brings to Black and White owes at least as much to his continuing racial obsessions as it does to the cultural moment. Lucky for him right now, the two are joined. Read more

Ted Anthony, Associated Press: Manages to be cutting-edge authentic and utterly unconvincing at the same time. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Like James Toback himself, his new film is in your face, overflowing with ideas, outrageous in its connections, maddening, illogical and fascinating. Read more

Charles Taylor, Salon.com: Toback's method of presenting the evidence without judgment backfires, finally appearing just as shapeless as the movie's structure. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: It doesn't try to spell out all aspects of the issue or arrive at any particular point. Toback presents specific characters dealing with specific problems and, through their stories, somehow manages to take the temperature of the times. Read more

Time Out: It looks like a mess -- if one stuffed with incident, issues and intrigue. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Variety: As lively and amusing as the film is in some ways, it does set up expectations at the outset that are never really delivered upon. Read more

J. Hoberman, Village Voice: This hodgepodge only intermittently rises to the laughable. Read more

Rita Kempley, Washington Post: Tends to be blabby and pedantic. Read more