“Chi-Raq” is the combination of “Chicago” and “Iraq;” as the trailer puts it: Homicides in Chicago, Ill. have surpassed the death toll of American Special Forces in Iraq.

This is what Spike Lee has done with his latest movie, "Chi-Raq," which I watched Sunday night at the Santa Monica Place ArcLight.

So maybe the nicest thing that can be said about Lee’s “Chi-Raq” (2015), which was just released for streaming on Amazon Prime, is that it succeeds in imparting this strong message — sort of. It’s ...

More alive than most of the year’s films put together, Spike Lee’s “Chi-Raq” is urgent agitprop that pulsates with unalloyed rage for the “self-inflicted genocide” of South Chicago and explodes with ...

The trailer for Spike Lee's latest movie, Chi-raq, is out. The film is having a limited released Dec. 4 and then rolling out on Amazon Instant Video ...

Spike Lee's "Chi-Raq" is an exuberant, angry, in-your-face and all-over-the-place movie that takes "Lysistrata" from ancient Greece and drops it into present-day Chicago, rhyming couplets and all.

Despite Burns’ criticism, Lee admitted that the reaction to him filming “Chi-raq” was “nothing but love.” “There’s this perception that all of Chicago didn’t want me here.

As for Harris, her take on Chi-Raq is at least in part damnation by faint praise in a piece titled Chi-Raq Is Not Nearly As Tone-Deaf About Sociopolitical Issues As Spike Lee Can Be.

In “Chi-Raq” Samuel L. Jackson serves as the Greek chorus in this contemporary remake of the Aristophanes classic 411 BC comedy “Lysistrata.” ...