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Black Snake Moan
2007
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Black Snake Moan
Positive Reviews
50
Negative reviews
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Average Rating
3.4
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2.0
Brewers alternately bold and timid B movie intermittently achieves a sweat soaked fever dream intensity, only to pull back into conventional drama.
Av Club
3.5
Yet to dismiss this film as an over the top throwback is to shut out the melody.
Austin Chronicle
4.5
When Bible reading doesnt quell the inflammation, Lazarus chains Rae to the radiator, which gives rise to the films iconic image chained heat, indeed.
Austin Chronicle
3.8
You have never seen a movie like this before.Then again, you may not hope to.
Rogerebert
4.5
What really surprised me about Black Snake is how flat out funny it is.
Cinema Blend
1.3
While its impossible to know what drew her to such a demeaning role, it may have a little something to do with the attention any actress would get fro ..
Ny Daily News
3.0
Brewers previous effort also had absolutely no theme relation to my own life, but it was able to elevate past that and put forth a heartfelt tale of a ..
JoBlo
4.5
It was through sheer luck that I got in, trading my ticket for the very wierd horror comedy Teeth for the opportunity to see this film.
Screen Rant
3.8
From its down and dirty title to a lurid ad campaign that screams Everythings hotter down south! over images of a sweaty Samuel L. Jackson looming ove ..
Tv Guide
3.1
Perhaps thats the point, illustrating in cinematic form the inner conflict of these tortured people, but if it is, the concept works better in esoteri ..
Mark Reviews Movies
3.5
This is a strange, politically incorrect and controversial film.It defies all expectations.
Lariat
3.8
The story, not so much.It begins in exploitation land and winds up as a quasi religious turn your life around fable, and its audacious and outrageous ..
Eric Ds Nider
4.0
A middle aged Tennessee sharecropper and former blues guitarist (Samuel L. Jackson) finds a young woman (Christina Ricci), half naked and badly beaten ..
News Review
3.8
Moody and full of atmosphere, this film has a terrific premise, but no plot to speak of. Its an intriguing character study, beautifully filmed and act ..
Shadows On The Wall
4.0
Whilst the film does have its fair share of titillation Ricci spends several scenes topless or naked the actual plot is surprisingly moving and emotio ..
View London
1.5
Even with the mostly competent cast, the story clanks along like Raes chains striking the wooden floor of her prison.
Film Journal
4.0
Is it trash or art Maybe its a bit of both. Its certainly one of the most alive films out there.
Mountain X
2.8
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Emanuellevy
4.5
Watching this film may be the closest youll ever come to seeing what the blues actually looks like.Its dirty, and its stinky, but most of all, its som ..
Reel Talk Reviews
3.5
A lot of the beats are a bit too familiar from previous entries in the series, which isnt surprising given that this is the fifth film to play off the ..
Q Network
2.2
type Movie Current Status In Season mpaa R runtime 116 minutes Wide Release Date 03/02/07 performer Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci, John Cothran J ..
Ew
1.5
What a daring challenge to viewers expectations!.Or maybe: What bullshit.
Slate
3.0
In theory, Black Snake Moan ought to be a copper bottomed stinker, but in reality its a flawed but strangely charming morality tale, a conservative fa ..
Empire
2.0
Youre more likely to be groaning or possibly hooting with laughter at the implausibility of this messy, misogynistic melodrama.
Eye For Film
2.5
It features fine performances from a capable cast, but they struggle to raise it up from under the weight of sweltering Southern cliches, weak scripti ..
Eye For Film
3.0
In writer director Craig Brewers BLACK SNAKE MOAN, Laz (Samuel L. Jackson), a hard working farmer nursing a broken heart, stumbles across a half naked ..
Common Sense Media
4.5
You will walk out of this shaking your head or laughing it off or swearing you just watched the wildest Driving Miss Daisy parody ever.
Movies
3.8
Black Snake Moan is a trip to that unfamiliar territory well worth tagging along on.
Sf Gate
2.0
This is an unusually bold film, but its also a morality tale thats riddled with hypocrisy and is frankly offensive.
Bbc
5.0
Whether intended as campy humor or something deeper, its a misfire.
Washington Post
2.5
Regrettably, the drama of said characters is unconvincing due to a premise that is daffy and just plain awkward.
The Movie Boy
3.0
Ronnie is whiny, cliched and delivers most of the bad dialogue in the film.
Bullz-Eye
3.5
...a conventional yarn of salvation and redemption that benefits most from a daring, no holds barred performance by Christina Ricci.
Reeling Reviews
3.2
...pure southern sexploitation cut with equal measures of humor and heart. Christina Ricci just about eats the screen alive.
Reeling Reviews
1.5
So to speak.Unfortunately, its not so hard out there for the audience to remember that weve seen these same story, at its core, too many times before ..
Flickfilosopher
4.4
The movie ends on a note that is simultaneously real and hopeful and does not in any way betray what has unfolded over the past two hours.This is a bo ..
ReelViews
3.0
Writer director Craig Brewer has ambition of originality but at this point its more like delusion of originality.
Hollywood
2.8
Its hard to know what to make of the thing, though it has a sleazy charm, its never boring and it goes a certain distance on Samuel L. Jacksons convic ..
Seattle Pi
3.5
As fine as Jackson is, however, Ricci is spectacular as the highly damaged woman of easy virtue.
Tony Medley
3.8
Brewer has infused Hustle & Flow with a gritty authenticity that quickly proves impossible to resist, and theres little doubt that if nothing else the ..
Reel Film
2.5
But despite its considerable unwholesome appeal, the movie gives us the feeling it has been chained up as well and that chain wont let it go any farth ..
The Star
3.0
Justin Timberlake is well cast as Raes anxiety prone soldier boyfriend, while S. Epatha Merkerson as the calm woman in Lazarus life is a delight.
Urban Cine File
3.8
Started several years ago, Art Alley is an evolving showcase of Kansas City street artists.
Kansas City
4.4
But this is an emotional story sold as exploitation one where love, faith, friendship and music wont heal deep wounds but can make manageable the plen ..
The Filmy Ap
3.1
Thats either a horror movie, a dark comedy or a porno, and Brewer is right to get the most comedy out of the situation you can.
Waffle Movies
3.0
The Bottom Line: Despite a great blues driven soundtrack and a lot of strong visuals, the premise behind Black Snake Moan isnt really strong enough to ..
ComingSoon
5.0
Black Snake Moan tackles some highly sensitive issues and it has a little wicked fun making sure that the well thinkers will be horrified by it, but i ..
Montreal Film Journal
2.0
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Entertainment Times Online ..
4.5
You will be able to save yourself from getting disappointed of watching nothing but a lame movie.
Window To The Movies
3.1
Chains of iron or love can provide that for only so long.Thus, provocative entertainment is served, while a meaningful message is squandered.
Chron
3.0
The title, poster and premise of this movie conspire to make it look like a Russ Meyer flick.
Film Guardian
3.8
takes fearsome advantage of the steaming sexuality and thick pulp on display, while underscoring it with a deep sense of intimacy.
Flip Side Archive
3.5
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Review Express
2.5
Theres just nowhere to go. They start talking about their feelings and being the healing process, and its like Dr. Phil.
Can Mag
5.0
Riveting and complex.A poignant but gritty, challenging yet touching depiction of two damaged souls in the South, Hustle and Flow director and writer ..
Movies Ign
4.0
It would have been a masterpiece if the gooey leviathan reached American shores and wolfed down Rex Reed, yet its a subversive blast all the same.
Cine Passion
3.8
Brewers hard bitten drama isnt merely defiant; it spits fire at Americas phony media fed version of itself.
Film Critic 1963 Typepad
3.8
Sensual pleasure and human frailty are finally, and agreeably, too dear to the movies tattooed heart.
Nicks Flick Picks
3.5
Deputies are searching Tuesday morning in Ascension Parish for evidence in the killing of the Brusly High teacher who went missing in 2011, days after ..
2 The Advocate
2.5
It was a motion picture with an incredible opening act; Brewer expertly invoked a humid, unsettling portrait of a life tethered to the ground and the ..
English Oh My News
4.5
But its Ricci who stuns here her performance is audacious and brave and perfectly pitched.
Ar Kansas Online
4.5
Were not sure where its going, but once its over, the two wounded birds have clearly forged an impenetrable bond born of danger, love and sickness.A p ..
Franks Reel Reviews
3.3
And there still museums with pay what you wish admission, if not every day, then on certain days weekly or monthly.You just have to know who offers wh ..
Time Out Ny
2.5
In this case its two incongruous movies mushed together half of a chitlin circuit drive in double bill meets a sympathetic small town melodrama.You ca ..
Stop Smiling Online
3.8
The pace may be uneven but the music side of this album is worth watching and especially listening to.
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