You are all nuts. This movie is facile, shallow tripe.

Rating: 2/10 (25 December 2005)

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyone else bored with racism? And what, really, is the message of this film? That everyone is a racist asshole, so we ought to just accept it? This movie gets props for being so "real," but you know what? I know a lot of black and white people who work together every day and manage not to fight and, in fact, manage to be friendly. Now, this movie does have some very well-played and well-acted scenes. But there are also a lot of really ridiculous scenes. Two of which are predicated on outrageously far-fetched concepts, and one scene that has two back-to-back outrageously far-fetched reversals. In slow-mo. So what that means is that during this serious and award-nominated treatise on American culture I laughed loud and hard four times. Hardly the director's intention. I proclaim this movie to be a joke -- and, frankly, it isn't that difficult to shock your audience into respect if you make your characters (thin, one-dimensional characters for that matter) say abusive things.