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  Review by K. Austin Collins 1

  ‪How had I not seen this? Suzan-Lori Parks script, Prince soundtrack (largely drawn from Hits/B-Sides and Sign O the Times), Quentin Tarantino cameo (which I knew about), Madonna and Naomi Campbell cameos (which I didn’t), Jenifer Lewis, Richard Belzer, a baby John Cameron Mitchell, Michael Imperioli — and it’s a sensitive study of the sexual exploitation of black women in the film industry, and media industries broadly, to boot. 

  I wasn’t sure about the stagy recreations of Carmen Jones, The Jeffersons, etc., but an essential point starts to emerge: that a black woman might find more heroes in past roles for black women than she’d find opportunities in future ones. I think that’s powerful, interesting—she can only assemble a dream career from a…

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  Review by ghostdinosaur ★★★★½ 4

  I'm probably going to movie jail for this one, but this is my favorite Spike Lee movie. As weird and unsettling and ambivalent a portrait of female showbiz fantasies and their decimation of self as Showgirls.

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  Review by Rafael Jovine ★★★ 13

  Action! - Spike The Power, Lee The Riot'

  The opening with Tarantino asking our protagonist to take off her clothes and show her boob is the most unbelievable thing I've ever heard. We all know he would have asked her to show her feet.

  Macabre jokes aside, this was a comedy that started off very strong and engaging, oozing style and great humour along with a great story. I also think the soundtrack composed by Prince helps a lot, giving the film and air of sensuality that suits this film, about a struggling actress who ends up taking a job as a call girl and somehow succeeds at it. Theresa Randle is equally good here, delivering both humour and drama,…

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  Review by KYK ★★★★

  i'm sorry i'm deceased from naomi campbell saying "i told you not to let your dick drip ever again"

  35mm. Alamo Drafthouse.

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  Review by ✨ christie ✨ ★★★★½

  suzan-lori parks and spike lee muse on the idea of erotic film as an elaborate recreation of private fantasy and of hollywood as a place that attempts to claim and drain women’s bodies, and then as a response to the damning opening sequences create a film which is erotic but mapped around a sexual world free of bodies, just disembodied words making a journey to each other. phone sex is acting; it has the exact same roles you play as when in front of a camera, it requires the exact same fluidity of identity, but it’s a little easier when nobody has to see your body or know your name, when calls dissipate into the night and don’t linger and…

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  Review by aaron ★★★★

  i've said it before and i'll say it again, spike lee is a genius.

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  Review by ⱠØⱠ₳ ★★★★½

  aesthetic perfection. first half starts off v good and compelling but it falls off towards the end. despite that i still really love this movie. i wish spike lee did more films w/ female protags cuz the first time i saw this when i was like 15 it was mindblowing to see

  -the cameos <3
  -screenplay written by a black woman <3
  -naomi campbell wearing a 'models suck' baby tee and saying "the ultra spank, for letting your dick drip, didn't i tell you not to let your dick drip !" <3
  -original soundtrack by Prince <3
  -theresa randle's hair and wigs and OUTFITS !!!!!!!! <3
  -DEBI MAZAR ! <3
  -jenifer lewis saying "dick drip" and laughing <3
  -theresa randle and debi mazar's characters laughing at sexually desperate & depraved men <3
  -madonna's little puppy <3
  -debi mazar's little puppy <3
  -theresa and spike lee's cute platonic friendship where he helps her put on wigs and hands her make up <3

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  Review by Joe ★★★★★

  NO TABOOS

  This has its problematic elements, like its depiction of sex work (of the telephonic variety) that veers on inherently demeaning, but even that downward spiral doesn't really kick in until the last act, and is arguably consistent with this idea of phone sex being a much more dramatic and emotionally stimulating profession for Judy than I imagine it actually is - she's so overflowing with creative energy that she can't help but throw herself into her work and her clients' fantasies, and the real emphasis is on that rather than any statement about phone sex, or showbiz, or whatever. And anyway, God, that shot of the phones raining (or snowing in April, I guess) down from above is…

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  Review by drippytim69 ★★★

  Did not expect QT to start it off

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  Review by Brian Formo ★★★

  Spike Lee's megaphone to the dismissal of black women in mainstream popular entertainment gets off to a rocky start in Girl 6 by having Quentin Tarantino cameo as himself, a white mechanical arm within the claw game of black culture, requesting the actress to take off her top and show her breasts; it's obviously uncomfortable and shows the low level that she's going up against in an attempt to get in a filmmaker's movie in which a black woman is reduced to QT's fascination with blaxploitation. However Lee is no better than QT by showing her breasts in the same scene that he's set up to critique. So goes Girl 6 a movie with many great points about representation and…

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  Review by cleansing my soul of addiction🦋 ★★★★★

  Why on earth cant you just pick up the phone? You know I don't like being alone

  Spike's hypnagogic sex odyssey, blackness brimming with feminine power. under neon light, 6 is in complete control of her sex and its power over men - it's all they crave, all that drives them, the reason they get up in the morning. she begins to drown in the light, consumed by red - no longer the alluring dominatrix flexing her power but never a slave to her faults. she is a woman. she's vulnerable, she's depraved, she's a slut and she's beautiful. only spike could've pulled off a film so sexy, drenched in funky dial tones and deathlust, only ms lori-parks could've written something so blissfully femme, so unapologetically black.

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  Review by Matt The Snapper ★★★★

  Spike Lee probably just told Tarantino at the beginning “Just be yourself”.

  Theresa Randle remains a queen.