With its titular city again making unsettling headlines this week, “Chi-Raq” arrives like an audacious, confounding, unabashedly sincere cry of the heart.
Spike Lee’s “Chi-Raq” Burns with Rage
More alive than most of the year’s films put together, Spike Lee’s “Chi-Raq” is urgent agitprop that pulsates with unalloyed rage for the “self-inflicted genocide” of South Chicago and explodes with full-hearted (and gloriously lewd) pleas for peace.