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Black Snake Moan (2007)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies! Email this page to a friend   Critics Reviews Average Grade:   B- Source Brief Review Grade* Atlanta Journal-Constitution Eleanor Ringel Gillespie "Ricci sizzles, the movie less so." more... C+ Boston Globe Wesley Morris "...exploitative, but it's also electric." more... B- Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert "...the oddest, most peculiar movie I've seen about sex and race and redemption in the Deep South." more... B   Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips "It fundamentally does not work..." more... C- E! Online Caroline Kepnes "...offers that rare cinematic escape into another dimension." more... A- Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum "...be prepared to collapse into a hoot and a howl of hilarity at all the wrong moments..." more... C- filmcritic.com Sean O'Connell "...the director exhibits extreme control over his hothouse situations, and finds kindness in the bawdiness of life." more... B+ New York Post Lou Lumenick "...works as down-and-dirty diversion because of the highly committed performances of its two stars..." more... B   New York Times A. O. Scott "For all its willful, shaking-and-shouting intensity, Black Snake Moan never lives up to its soundtrack..." more... C   ReelViews James Berardinelli "Ricci's performance is brave and effective - the most provocative in a career that has rejected Hollywood norms." more... A- Rolling Stone Peter Travers "Offensive on multiple levels -- if only the plot had any levels at all..." more... C- San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein "Sexually charged." more... B   Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold "Brewer's script is not well thought-out. " more... C+ USA Today Claudia Puig "Though this film tries to convey a sense of campy fun, it ends up feeling off-putting and disturbing." more... C   * Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)