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If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise

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Rob Humanick Slant Magazine 04/20/2011
If the cumulative effect isn't quite fire-and-brimstone rancor, it's because bearing witness to such expansive injustice is, perhaps unavoidably, nothing short of exhausting. Go to Full Review Felicia Feaster Charleston City Paper 01/22/2020
It may not be perfect... but If God is Willing is as good an example of the transcendence art offers: for reflection, for mourning, and to combat all of the woes of the world. Go to Full Review Nicholas Lemann The New York Review of Books 11/05/2018
By the dictates of narrative logic, the boisterous opening scenes of If God Is Willing have to be a straw man that can then be knocked down, and Lee doesn't disappoint. What follows is a comprehensive, vivid, detailed, relentlessly negative portrait. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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09/21/2012 Multifaceted n complex portrait update of NO and sister city port au prince haiti update See more 09/01/2012 An exhaustive and emotionally exhausting look at Katrina and the characters surrounding it. See more 07/13/2012 I'm so happy that Spike Lee returned to New Orleans. Learning about what has happened since the hurricane, and how injustices continue to be perpetrated is eye opening. An essential film! See more 02/29/2012 good sequel doc about 'the big easy' See more 01/07/2012 Spike Lee's follow up to When the Levees Broke is far more interesting than his first effort. Da Creek captures the frustration of New Orleans in a brutally honest fashion that you won't see on a cable news channel. See more 09/22/2011 Not quite as focused as its predecessor, but it still packs a helluva punch. See more Read all reviews
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Spike Lee

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Kathleen Blanco

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C. Ray Nagin

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Mitch Landrieu

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Anisse Parker

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Spike Lee