Review of Do the Right Thing (1989) by Peter Travers for Rolling Stone — 26 Jul 2003
Lee offers no reassurance, no uplift, no call for all races to join hands and spout liberal platitudes. What he does offer is a devastating portrait of black America pushed to the limit, with the outcome still to be written.
There’s only one way to do the wrong thing about Do the Right Thing: that would be to ignore it.
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This review of Do the Right Thing (1989) was written by Peter Travers and published by Rolling Stone on 26 July 2003.
Do the Right Thing has generally received very positive reviews.
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