Synopsis
During the summer of 1977, a killer known as the Son of Sam keeps all of New York City on edge with a series of brutal murders.
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Cast
- John LeguizamoVinny
- Adrien BrodyRitchie
- Mira SorvinoDionna
- Jennifer EspositoRuby
- Michael RispoliJoey T
- Saverio GuerraWoodstock
- Brian TarantinaBobby Del Fiore
- Al PalagoniaAnthony
- Ken GaritoBrian
- Bebe NeuwirthGloria
Recommendations
- 100
Chicago Tribune
This is a terrific movie: jolting, savage, horrifically funny, nightmarishly exciting but also brainy and compassionate. - 80
Salon
An urban epic, a noisy, swirling, flawed, hilarious, witty, tender, violent, questionable train wreck. - 70
Newsweek
A thick stew of sex, violence and suspicion, Lee's movie -- spiked up with a virtually nonstop soundtrack -- definitely has the power to jangle your nerves. - 70
Chicago Reader
Like most of Lee’s work, this movie bites off a lot more than it can possibly chew, and it bristles with the worst kind of New York provincialism. - 70
TV Guide Magazine
A tabloid slice of tabloid life, ragged, vivid, awkward and punchy all at once. - 63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
It's a kaleidoscope of ideas that range from exciting to silly and gaudy. - 60
New York Magazine (Vulture)
It's all been done before, and better. - 60
Slate
Spike Lee is a virtuoso filmmaker, a wizard at selling a sequence, but he'll never make an entirely coherent movie until he learns to go deeper into his subjects instead of wider with them.
