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Black Snake Moan
A God-fearing bluesman takes to a wild young woman who, as a victim of childhood sexual abuse, looks everywhere for love, never quite finding it.
1948, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
23 August 1979, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
28 November 1952, Saginaw, Michigan, USA
27 September 1976, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
31 August 1961, Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA
March 02, 2007
The characters never connect, and the movie never takes off. Rae may be the one sporting a padlock around her waist. But it's the movie that's shackled.
March 02, 2007
The movie strolls right past absurdity into offensiveness, by trying to pass this pulp nonsense off as noble art.
June 13, 2008
Moan? You're more likely to be groaning - or possibly hooting with laughter at the implausibility of this messy, misogynistic melodrama.
April 23, 2009
Craig Brewer, the promising director who hit it with Hustle and Flow, seems to harbor a need to exorcise his white burden through films centered on black music.
April 29, 2009
With excellent performances, plays on morality and sexual behavior, Brewer composes another surefire classic.
March 03, 2007
Delightfully outrageous, Black Snake Moan is an explosive mixture of sex, race and down-South swamp water.
November 20, 2008
Brewer knows his music, and how to make it the center of a story; if he only did a better job filling in the rest of the blanks, this might've worked.
March 02, 2007
For Black Snake Moan to work any sort of magic, it must be viewed as a blues riff on damaged souls and their desperate need for salvation.
March 02, 2007
This is the kind of movie that's best enjoyed as a stylized fantasy, much like Brewer's most obvious model, Elia Kazan's Southern-fried Tennessee Williams adaptation Baby Doll.
March 03, 2007
Pitched uncomfortably but compellingly between homage and exploitation in its big-hearted exploration of the steamiest corners of black life.
July 06, 2010
God, sex and the blues are mashed together and deep fried southern style in Craig Brewer's unique Black Snake Moan.