In one of his most impudently engaging movies, Lee's heroine has a lot of sex—on the telephone.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
Lee, I'm afraid, hasn't a clue. He has made half a movie, a phone-sex comedy in which the heroine has no real existence apart from the phone.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
Unfortunately, while certain aspects of Girl 6 are handled with flair, the film's dramatic scope too often isn't compelling enough for subject matter of such rich and varied possibilities.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: J. Hoberman
Girl 6, the goofy phone-sex comedy that he directed from Suzan-Lori Parks's script, may be incoherent, but it's never boring. Juggling a dozen or more subplots and letting them drop wherever they fall, the movie gives the impression of having been invented as Lee went along. [26 Mar 1996]Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Janet Maslin
Mr. Lee isn't as successful at shaping a story around Girl 6, but enjoying her company is all his slender, sunny film really tries to do.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Mike Clark
Spike Lee deserved a vacation after putting himself through the grueling emotions of Clockers, but Girl 6 is too flimsy to excuse even as cinematic R&R. Frenetic but lazily conceived, it's like one of those puny low-budget toss-offs Brian De Palma used to spring on us when he thought nobody was looking. [22 Mar 1996, p.4D]Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Jay Carr
The enormously appealing Randle holds the screen even when the thinness of Suzan-Lori Parks' script becomes inescapably apparent. There isn't much vigorous narrative pulse, complexity or even faceting of Randle's character, and the arbitrary ending seems both forced and inconclusive. [22 Mar 1996, p.53]Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
Strongly told stories have a way of carrying their characters along with them. But here we have an undefined character in an aimless story. Too bad.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
Too slight to be taken seriously and too off-putting (especially when the phone callers get hostile and the work demeaning) to be funny, Girl 6 feels like the first draft of a potentially interesting project. It just hasn't been made good on here.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Rita Kempley
Sans emotional depth or narrative drive, Lee's latest flick is little more than a profane litany punctuated by Oscar-caliber orgasms.Read Full Review »
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