“Do the Right Thing is bright and brazen, and it moves with a distinctive jangling glide,” J. Hoberman wrote for the Village Voice. “Set on a single block in the heart of Brooklyn on the hottest Saturday of the summer, it offers the funniest, most stylized, most visceral New York street scene this side of Scorseseland. Lee is a deft quick-sketch artist. His Bed-Stuy block . . . is as humid as a terrarium and as teeming with life.” In its portrayal of simmering racial tensions escalating toward tragedy, the film is (in Hoberman's words) “a daring mix of naturalism and allegory, agitprop and psychodrama.” The extraordinary cast includes Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Robin Harris, Samuel L. Jackson, Bill Nunn, Rosie Perez, and John Turturro.