In Spike Lee’s wonderful new movie, “Crooklyn”-set in a neighborhood much like the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn where the Lee family lived in his youth-there’s a scene where the five Carmichael ...

Take “The Partridge Family” and set it to jazz; give it heart, soul, spunk and spice, let it roam and sizzle, let it get down, be funny and tender at once — and you have Spike Lee’s “Crooklyn.” In ...

Our Flick of the Week is Spike Lee’s “Crooklyn,” the sweetest film of his career, a patchwork quilt of childhood memories belonging to his sister and brother of growing up in a loving family in a ...