She Hate Me. Girl 6 is bad, but not She Hate Me bad.

Actually Summer of Sam, Clockers, He Got Game, are all solid. 25th Hour is one of my favorite movies of all time. His fall from grace has been exaggerated because he made an execrable piece of shit, and a somewhat dull, but well-intentioned, war movie.

Not the place to defend Red Hook then?

He calls the theatrical cut his "director's cut."

exactly. it had the feel of a creation myth rather than an actual, literalist representation of what went down