The Fix Should ‘Chi-raq’ be seen as real political commentary? December 8, 2015 More than 9 years ago Summary By Janell Ross ...

Spike Lee's latest, Chi-Raq, is designed to provoke: women in Chicago's south side go on a "sex strike" to curb gang violence, cribbing from Lysistrata, Aristophanes' comic account of the ...

Chi-Raq is a controversial name for Chicago, usually associated with violence. But now, Chi-Raq is the name of a new business on Chicago's South Side.

The release of Spike Lee’s new film “Chi-Raq” this week comes at a weighty moment for the city of Chicago. The city’s chronic gun violence is back in the headlines thanks to a video of a ...

NPR film critic Bob Mondello reviews Spike Lee's Chi-Raq, a movie satire in rap and verse based on Aristophanes' ancient Greek satire Lysistrata.

Further, Lee said, Chi-Raq is a hot-button topic because the mayor really doesn't want it to go worldwide "on his watch." Drawing parallels to his 1989 film about New York City, Do the Right Thing ...

Part sermon, part stand-up special and largely, bizarrely entertaining, “Chi-Raq” likely will go down as the best (and only) rhyme-based, Greek play-inspired sex comedy to examine life … ...

Spike Lee’s “Chi-Raq” has its moments of overreaching, but when Lee is on point, the movie is powerful stuff – certainly his best in years.

Culture December 14, 2015 ‘Chi-raq’ Reveals Spike Lee’s Outdated Race Politics At its heart, Chi-raq is a critique of the hypermasculine posturing that props up so much gang violence—but ...

Chi-Raq ’s obstreperous and hectoring characters, familiar from Lee’s previous fantasies of black urban life, are not humanized by Chi-Raq ’s randomly stylized exposition.

It may not take much to make Spike Lee angry, but there’s no denying he gives us his reasons and then some in “Chi-Raq,” a sprawling, blistering state-of-the-union address that presents ...