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	25th Hour - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		25th Hour is a Spike Lee motion picture based on David Benioff's novel The 25th Hour.
		There is also a subplot concerning Elinsky, a high school teacher, trying to suppress his sexual attraction to one of his students (Paquin) — who, as luck would have it, shows up at the club where Brogan is having his last hurrah.
		The 25th Hour is also notable for being one of the first movies released after the 9/11 terrorist attacks to not only acknowledge the tragedy, but to incorporate it into the plot.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/25th_Hour (366 words)

	25th Hour
		"25th Hour" is a character driven, rather than plot driven, tale that focuses on its players.
		Edward Norton, as central character Monty, anchors the film with his tough, pragmatic persona that is tempered with an underlying kindness and warmth that is reserved for his father (Brian Cox), lover and friends (and, of course, Doyle the dog).
		"25th Hour" may not be the total work that we are used to from Spike Lee - the director most often scribes his own pictures, among other filmmaking duties, but not here - but he does leave his imprint firmly on the film.
	www.reelingreviews.com /25thhour.htm (1964 words)

	Chicago Reader Movie Review
		25th Hour is Lee's best feature since Do the Right Thing, and part of what's so impressive about it is the way it gets us to think as well as feel -- about things we're almost never asked to consider, such as what it means to send drug dealers to prison.
		The focus of 25th Hour, adapted by David Benioff from his novel, is how a Manhattan drug dealer named Monty Brogan (Edward Norton) spends his last 24 hours before going to prison for seven years.
		The classic Lee tropes and mannerisms that appear in 25th Hour include jump cuts, alternate takes of the same action (Monty and Naturelle rushing toward each other into an embrace) repeated in rapid succession, arias of ethnic abuse, dreamy camera movements that make the characters appear to float or glide in midair, and wall-to-wall music.
	www.chicagoreader.com /movies/archives/2003/0103/030117_1.html (1678 words)

	The Popkorn Junkie :: The 25th Hour
		"25th Hour" is the most original thing we have seen from Spike Lee in quite some time, and is a steady departure from his string of documentaries ("4 Little Girls", and "Jim Brown") and that television ad he directed for Al Gore.
		Spike Lee's "25th Hour" is a fine film, but still possessed several flaws, which I thought ultimately took away from the complexity and power than the film could have achieved.
		Alas, "25th Hour" does manage to entertain, and reminded me of "Glengarry Glen Ross" with some of the long stretches of intense and well-written dialogue (it's certainly no David Mamet, but it still holds it's own).
	www.popkornjunkie.com /reviews/25thhour.html (1077 words)

	25th Hour (2002)
		Via 25th Hour, we shadow him on his last day as a free man as he spends his final 24 hours of freedom in deep reflection, as well as with good friends.
		Touchstone brings viewers 25th Hour in an anamorphically enhanced — and THX certified - widescreen presentation in the film’s theatrical aspect ratio of 2.35:1.
		While 25th Hour does contain a few flaws, many of them were difficult to discern because of the intentional grain and restrained look-and-feel of the picture itself.
	www.dvdmg.com /25thhour.shtml (2051 words)

	What Spike Lee's 25th Hour is really about. By David Edelstein
		Monty passes the hours by thinking back over his life as the son of alcoholic firefighter turned bar owner (Brian Cox), the courier of a Russian mobster, and the boyfriend of a hotcha Puerto Rican girl (Rosario Dawson) who might have tipped off agents to his stash.
		Hour is a melancholy tone poem, deeply affecting in its mute apprehension of loss, with a lush, imposing orchestral score by Terence Blanchard that could be titled "Elegy for 9/11," along with Bruce Springsteen's "The Fuse" (with a Blanchard string arrangement) over the closing credits.
		Hour is fueled by the threat of anal rape: It's what preoccupies Monty, and it's the heart of the sexual-panic motif that runs (subtly, mischievously) through the screenplay (in different directorial hands, the film could been a queasy comedy).
	www.slate.com /?id=2075810 (933 words)

	Review: 25th Hour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		25th Hour is deliberately (and, some might argue, maddeningly) open-ended, although it offers a tantalizing glimpse of one possibility.
		25th Hour moves slowly —it's an unhurried, talky affair that consists primarily of members of the small group of characters interacting, while flashbacks reveal how and why Monty is in his current predicament.
		25th Hour is not a happy experience, and there are times when it seems to drag, but there's no denying that it lingers in the mind long after the impressions left by other movies have evaporated.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/t/25th_hour.html (698 words)

	Spike Lee's love poem to New York / '25th Hour' is a magnificent elegy for the post-Sept. 11 city
		In "25th Hour" Spike Lee takes the story of a convicted drug dealer's last day of freedom and expands it into a meditation on New York and America in the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001.
		The key to appreciating fully "25th Hour" is in not dwelling long on the analogy between New York and the movie's protagonist, Monty (Edward Norton), a fresh-faced young man who's about to go up the river for seven years on a drug charge.
		Watch "25th Hour" and it's as if everyone in the film has been hit in the head and is just coming to.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/01/10/DD214388.DTL (863 words)

	Movie Review - 25th Hour - www.ericdsnider.com - The Official Website of Eric D. Snider (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Spike Lee's "25th Hour" is in some ways a thrilling departure for the director, and in other ways a predictable, tired adherence to the quirks that have marked his previous work.
		"25th Hour" confirms that Lee has a remarkably keen sense of cinematic style, that in many ways he can compete with heavyweights like Scorsese and Spielberg, and that like most great directors, he has a knack for screwing up his own work.
		Lee's audacity for filming at such a location is admirable; indeed, "25th Hour" will go down as the first major film to address and deal with Sept. 11.
	www.ericdsnider.com /movies/25th-hour (870 words)

	Modamag.com \| 25th Hour (Movie Review)
		Hour” is a massive two-headed hydra of a picture.
		Hour” is about change and personal choices, and how those choices can lead us down the wrong path even when we see it coming.
		Hour” is an intensely introspective piece about what the future, in its inherent regret, has in store for us.
	www.modamag.com /25thhour.htm (552 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "25th Hour" review (2002) Spike Lee, Edward Norton, Barry Pepper
		For almost its entire first act, Spike Lee's captivating, character-driven "25th Hour" only hints at a plot as the film corkscrews into the pulp of one dismal, discomforting day in the once-high life of Monty Brogan.
		"25th Hour" is at its most profound, however, when Monty's father lays his love on the line for his son, imagining, even encouraging, a vivid alternative future as a fugitive, the description of which tests Monty's reinvigorated moral mettle.
		But the intrinsic understanding of the characters' souls and psyches, which slowly seeps into your mind as "25th Hour" unfolds, provides exactly the kind of impact one expects from this dexterous and discerning director.
	www.splicedonline.com /02reviews/25thhour.html (797 words)

	The 25th Hour
		So for most people, The 25th Hour is their first experience dealing with the terrorist events on film.
		Given the subject of The 25th Hour, adapted by David Benioff from his novel, it seems an appropriate use of tragedy by director Spike Lee.
		At over two hours, there is a little too much time and not enough plot to sustain a sense of momentum.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/25th_hour.html (586 words)

	Heaven & 25th Hour
		It is as though 25th Hour’s plot is linked to recent history and to our communal psychologies by some cryptic form of emotional piano wire; a key is struck in the plot and our real-world memories reverberate with associations, echoes, amplifications.
		Heaven and 25th Hour, one an elegy for a bomber, the other for a guilty survivor, would be a hard double-feature to sit through, but even worse would be missing them both—apparently the fate to which Disney’s distributors would consign us.
		Despite their notable stylistic and tonal disparities, Heaven and 25th Hour smartly sacrifice the temptations of moral policing in favor of challenging, rapturous depictions of a world where injury and immorality are widespread at every level: the personal, the national, the global, the spiritual.
	www.nicksflickpicks.com /heav25th.html (1852 words)

	25th Hour (2002): Reviews
		25th Hour struck me as one of the best movies of 2002, but it's also a film that will strike some of its audience as ethically dubious or threatening.
		Lee, as he did in ''Malcolm X'' and ''Clockers,'' makes his hero's dread palpable, and though 25th Hour lacks the glittering brilliance of those films, I was held by the toughness and pity of Lee's gaze.
		If 25th Hour does not quite work as a plausible and coherent story, it produces a wrenching, dazzling succession of moods.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/25thhour (1357 words)

	25th Hour
		From his breakout movie "She's gotta have it" to his most recent "25th Hour", stars and friends like Denzel Washington, Martin Scorsese, Halle Berry, Sydney Lumet, Wesley Snipes, Rosie Perez and John Turturro talk Spike and how his has influenced their careers and American cinema.
		Spike himself talks about his motivations and influences and why 25th Hour needed to reflect how the events of September 11th 2001 had affected his beloved city of New York.
		I would have liked to have seen more behind the scenes footage from the film and a few more cast interviews but there is more than enough here to please any fan of the movie, the cast or the director.
	www.kelwick.karoo.net /TheUsher-Speaks2003/TheUsherSpeaks-25thHour.htm (1104 words)

	DVD.net : 25th Hour - DVD Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		All of this serves as the background for 25th Hour, an unusually subtle piece of social commentary from director Spike Lee.
		No matter; 25th Hour is a film that invites interpretation by its audience, and what you get out of it will depend entirely on what experiences, opinions and morals you bring with you.
		25th Hour is a superb, multi-faceted drama which has something to say, but doesn’t need to get out the sledgehammer in order to say it.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=3296 (1725 words)

	25th Hour - Nitrate Online Review
		The connections between this difficult conversation and its devastating framing are at the heart of Spike Lee's The 25th Hour.
		Narrated by James while he's driving his son to prison, the sequence stretches out into an "America" that these diehard city dwellers have never known, a reverie set in the desert, imagining Monty's life without prison, projecting into a future that might be.
		25th Hour takes its time, especially in this last storytelling, and if it occasionally stumbles, making some points too obviously, it is, in the end, a generous, reflective, uncommonly resonant film.
	www.nitrateonline.com /2002/r25thhour.html (1372 words)

	nzgirl - 25th Hour
		I think Spike Lee is one of Hollywood’s most insightful directors, and 25th Hour has confirmed that belief.
		He’s been busted by the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) and is 24 hours away from starting a seven-year jail term.
		25th Hour is as much a film about friendship and honesty as it is a tribute to post-911 New York.
	www.nzgirl.co.nz /articles/2461 (344 words)

	25th Hour Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		That's the question posed by David Benioff in his novel 25th Hour and in director Spike Lee's film of the same name.
		Monty also has a special hatred for Osama bin Laden, and 25th Hour is one of the few films to intelligently deal with the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
		25th Hour is less about drugs and dealing than the poor choices people make, and the fine line that separates those headed for prison and those who remain free.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=136559 (1600 words)

	Xiibaro Reviews: The Hours, 25th Hour, Just Married, Kangaroo Jack, and National Security
		Michael Cunningham's novel The Hours and its film incarnation directed by Stephen Daldry cut close to the beliefs that Woolf made clear in her novels, so much that the main character in both the novel and the movie is Virginia Woolf.
		The Hours is, most certainly, a distressing work that revolves around death more than life -- which can be said about Woolf's novels and her own life -- but also one of the most assuredly filmed, literarily textured films of the year.
		Some have accused the film as being a feminist treatise, questioning the film's decisions to pose all three women as lesbians (Virginia Woolf was bisexual, Laura Brown shares a kiss with one of her fellow suburbanites, and Clarissa Vaughan has found her life partner in a younger woman).
	www.cinema-scene.com /archive/05/03.html (1699 words)

	Frank's Reel Movie Reviews - Movie Review - 25th Hour
		In 25th Hour souls are bared, exposing raw nerves that flinch when touched.
		The entire city's soul was uncovered by the 9/11 tragedy, and yet while New Yorkers came out of the disaster with their pride and dignity intact, the same can't be said for many of our central characters.
		Ground Zero: "25th Hour" involves one particularly chilling scene of two characters looking over the demolished space of the Twin Towers, and this montage is roughly five minutes worth of footage shot of Ground Zero and the surrounding area.
	www.franksreelreviews.com /reviews/25thhour.htm (889 words)

	25th Hour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		25th Hour is unrecognizable as a Spike Lee joint.
		Whether a result of his recent work in the documentary field or simply a by-product of growing older, there's a new maturity on display here, and the result is the director's most satisfying feature in over a decade.
		Having been caught red-handed with a kilo of heroin hidden in the cushions of his couch, Brogan is intent on living his last hours on the outside to the fullest.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies6/25thHour.htm (872 words)

	The best movie you haven't seen - Salon
		Suffused with a sense of 9/11 loss, Spike Lee's overlooked "25th Hour" is the most emotionally wrenching film of the year.
		Never before has the city looked so stark, so impermanent against the nighttime sky, as if it were some magnificent set that had been erected for the camera and would be collapsed and put into storage when the director had the shot.
		So I winced early on in "25th Hour" when Edward Norton, as the movie's hero, Monty Brogan, a drug dealer having his final day of freedom before beginning a seven-year prison sentence, goes into a monologue in which, one by one, he tells every ethnicity and class in New York to go fuck themselves.
	dir.salon.com /story/ent/movies/feature/2003/02/19/25th_hour/index.html (861 words)

	THE 25TH HOUR: A Novel of Crime by David Benioff
		If I thought they would stand still for it, I'd drive over to their house right now and read them a short novel by David Benioff entitled THE 25TH HOUR, a short cautionary tale for Generation X in the closing days of the 20th Century and the dawning of the 21st.
		THE 25TH HOUR is a day in the life of one Monty Brogan --- a very special day, actually.
		THE 25TH HOUR is in its own way a fable of our time, a portrayal of how scales are balanced and crime is inevitably punished in ways both foreseen and not.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0786707720.asp (442 words)

	25th Hour reviewed by Steve Sailer for The American Conservative; Edward Norton, Spike Lee, Rosario Dawson, Barry ...
		In Spike Lee's "25th Hour" (which enters national release on Friday), Edward Norton portrays a 31-year-old New Yorker on whom the prison doors are about to slam shut.
		In "25th Hour," though, Norton delivers a fine version of the third archetype, the easy-to-identify-with regular guy (what Tom Hanks plays).
		And that's the problem with the "25th Hour." Just as Hanks' role as a good-hearted hitman in "Road to Perdition" was misconceived, here the protagonist's crime is too vicious, too sustained, and too vivid to harmonize with Norton's portrayal of an everyman who made a mistake.
	www.isteve.com /Film_25th_Hour.htm (830 words)

	Movie Photos: 25th Hour
		Edward Norton and Rosario Dawson in Touchstone's 25th Hour - 2002
		Spike Lee's 25TH HOUR, about the last day of freedom for Monty Brogan (Edward Norton), is a rich tapestry of life that contains more memorable performances than you can count.
		Opening in 2003 in most parts of the country, it is counted for Academy purposes as a 2002 film, and, since it is one of last year's best films, one hopes that it will garner several awards.
	www.allmoviephoto.com /photo/2002_25th_Hour_photo.html (819 words)

	Movies Other\| (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The main idea of 25th Hour is so strong, I almost wish it had been protected from Spike Lee’s mind.
		If in spite of everything 25th Hour is affecting, that’s partly because there are some fine performances, especially Norton’s, and because the terrible energy of the theme of Monty’s last night of freedom charges the atmosphere of the film’s best section — a long sequence in a nightclub.
		The narrative flow is casual and evocative, and Lee’s pace is relaxed enough to let him revel in an extended-time shot of Anna Paquin’s high-school student, moisture glistening on her Ecstasy-sensitized skin, moving across the room as if she were picking her way over the bodies at an orgy.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/movies/reviews/documents/02642323.htm (672 words)

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