Spike Lee And His Woman Problem

“[W]hen it comes to his female characters, it’s as though Lee can’t decide whether to worship them or punish them. […] Lee’s latent misogyny stings because, from the very beginning, his was the voice of the black hipster intellectual … You expect a little more enlightenment from him than you would from, say, Ice Cube or from Tyler Perry with his scheming evil buppies.”