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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    San Francisco Chronicle | Edward Guthmann

    4 Little Girls brilliantly captures a moment in American history and tells an achingly painful story of injustice and family loss. Read full review

  • 100
    Christian Science Monitor | David Sterritt

    The film's approach is highly instructive, deeply moving, and geared to deploring the racism that breeds violence rather than reactivating old hatreds. Read full review

  • 100
    USA Today | Mike Clark

    This subject demands consummate screen treatment and now has absolutely gotten it from director/producer Spike Lee. [10 Jul 1997, Pg.02.D] Read full review

  • 100
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    Director Spike Lee has made some of the most hard-edged and unsettling American films on racism and its effects. Yet none has been as moving as this. [24 Oct 1997, Pg.F2] Read full review

  • 100
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    There is mostly sadness and regret at the surface in 4 Little Girls, but there is anger in the depths, as there should be. Read full review

  • 90
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    Lee takes a conventional, talking-heads-and-archival-clips approach to the material, but rewardingly establishes an intimate connection with his subjects by devoting considerable time to the personalities and families of the four victims. Read full review

  • 90
    The Onion A.V. Club | Keith Phipps

    An important act of historical preservation, a focused and effective film that brings back a dark, important moment in history with startling clarity. Read full review

  • 83
    Entertainment Weekly |

    Surprisingly, given Lee's penchant for experimentation, there's nothing remotely innovative about this sober, often intensely moving exploration of a community's lingering grief and outrage -- just the usual talking heads, stock footage, montages of stills, and such. Read full review

  • 80
    L.A. Weekly |

    The film is artfully made, its occasional excesses of style moderated by the plain force of the content and the passion of the testimony. Read full review

  • 80
    The New York Times | Elvis Mitchell

    Mr. Lee, whose lean, straightforward documentary style loses none of his usual clarity and fire (the film has been exceptionally well shot by Ellen Kuras), summons a powerful sense of Birmingham's past and a galvanizing sense of how this bombing would change its future. Read full review

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