2018-02-22

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Mainstream American films don’t often tackle race and racism head-on, and when they do, they often end up trying to find easy answers. Which makes films like Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing all the more powerful.

It’s an intimate portrait of a Brooklyn neighborhood dealing with rising tensions on the hottest day of the year. It's also fun, funny, and full of life. In this episode of Crash Course Film Criticism, Michael Aranda walks us through Do The Right Thing!

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Check out all 15 films we'll be talking about below!!!

Citizen Kane

Aliens

Where Are My Children?

Selma

In the Mood For Love

Do the Right Thing

Lost In Translation

Apocalypse Now

Pan's Labyrinth

The Limey

Three Colors: Blue

The Eagle Huntress

Moonlight

Beasts of No Nation

2001: A Space Odyssey

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