For a long time, the Spike Lee joint was a genre unto itself – an occasionally arresting but highly unfocused mish-mosh; with one year’s Girl 6 blurring into another year’s She Hate Me, it was almost as if Lee was making one, long strident movie with the overriding purpose of drawing attention to its essential Spikeness. That changed somewhat with the 2006 release of Inside Man, a more-or-less straightforward take on the heist genre. Now Lee is putting the finishing touches on another film in a venerable Hollywood tradition: a war movie called Miracle at St. Anna.
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