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GIMME FIVE
GIMME FIVE
Gary Thompson's list of the best Spike Lee films.
1. "Do the Right Thing," (1989). Hate and bigotry explode into violence in Bed-Stuy.
2. "School Daze," (1988). A comic look at black college life.
3. "Inside Man," (2006). Denzel Washington as a cop who has to defuse a hostage situation.
4. "4 Little Girls" (1997). A documentary about the racially motivated bombing in 1963 of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala.
5. "Malcolm X," (1992). Denzel Washington as the controversial black nationalist leader.
