Spike Lee's latest film combines the rich detail of Do The Right Thing with the stylistic bravado of Scorsese's GoodFellas. Summer Of Sam marks a departure for the iconoclastic director in that it's his first movie not to address specifically African-American characters and issues. However, while the film is audacious in scale, frenzied in pace and impressively performed by a talented ensemble cast, you can't help thinking that the relatives of David Berkowitz's victims had a point when they accused Lee of sensationalising their loved ones' deaths.
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