She Hate Me 2004

Critics score:
19 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: It's not only unfathomable and borderline offensive, it's never-ending, leaving its bewildered and battered audience in the dark for well over two hours. Read more

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Nothing in the film rings remotely true. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Lee should know better -- he's too talented to be serving up this kind of silliness, and so are his actors. Read more

Jon Strickland, L.A. Weekly: Targets 'the decline of ethics ... from the boardroom to the bedroom,' and misses on both fronts. Read more

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Fun to watch and fun to think about later; it's chockful of provocative statements about corporate morality, sexual hypocrisy and what's wrong about both today. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Spike Lee's She Hate Me is about as awful as a film can be without being the ultimate awful, which is boring. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: ... may be the worst movie of the year. Read more

Steve Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Finally, a movie that can vie with Gigli as the worst feature of the new millennium. Read more

Arizona Republic: Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: For all his irreverence, Lee still seems uncertain how to convey deep, adult feeling without seeming obligated to feel. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: When it comes to social issues, Lee is fiercely, admirably activist, but when it comes to sex, he plays into stereotypes and myths that are all the more easily reinforced because they occur in a raucously comic context. Read more

Houston Chronicle: Read more

Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: [Lee's] most muddled message movie to date. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Manages to be at once racist, homophobic, utterly fake, and unbearably tedious. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Easily Lee's most disorganized movie, She Hate Me is also one of the most preposterous efforts by any major director in recent memory. Read more

Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Maddening, invigorating, ridiculous, hilarious and messier than a rack of ribs without a napkin. Read more

Jan Stuart, Newsday: At 2 1/2 hours running time, you get more than you bargained for in sheer befuddlement. Read more

Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: It seems as if She Hate Me is two different stories spliced together, with cross-purposed tones and topics. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: It's quite a paradox that someone so acutely attuned to racism would so enthusiastically embrace the worst cliches of homophobia and misogyny. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: Lee carries his political exasperation beyond outrage into chaos. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Succeeds in finding something to offend almost everybody. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: A mixed bag, but at least it's interesting and almost never boring. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: She Hate Me invites anger and analysis about the stereotypes it appears to celebrate; a film that attacked those stereotypes would inspire yawns. Read more

Charles Taylor, Salon.com: Lee, who always has an agenda, is fundamentally unsuited to satire, which has no sides, no friends, no agenda. Read more

Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Two movies mashed together. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Within its messy framework there's a lot to like about She Hate Me. Read more

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Mike Clark, USA Today: This 140-minute I-don't-know- what-it-is unravels like a ball of yarn after a bout with a tiger on Colombian catnip. Read more

Scott Foundas, Variety: More often than not, the sheer originality and ambition of the project carry pic, which is further bolstered by its superb ensemble cast. Read more

J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Ankle-chained to the ball of Jack's depression, She Hate Me lurches from cartoonish didacticism to glum slapstick. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Sheer agony to sit through. Read more

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Might qualify as the most misguided, ill-conceived and lamentable film of [Lee's] career. Read more