Spike Lee's CHI-RAQ is a modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play "Lysistrata" by Aristophanes. After the murder of a child by a stray bullet, a group of women led by Lysistrata organize against the ongoing violence in Chicago's South Side, creating a movement that challenges the nature of race, sex and violence in America and around the world.

"Lee mixes fierce agitprop with lyrical musical numbers and Greek-inspired sex farce in hip hop verse. It's a mad combination that fittingly addresses a world of madness." -Kevin B. Lee, The Wrap

"This sprawling, blistering state-of-the-reunion-address is Spike Lee's most vital movie in years." -Justin Chang, Variety

"A lively and legitimate way to tackle an urgent subject matter that other filmmakers have found excuses to avoid." -Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter

"It's a shattering, thunderous wake-up alarm, a call to lay down arms, a gutsy social satire and a highly stylized work of fiction that sometimes feels as accurate and sobering as the crime reporting you see on the front page of this newspaper." -Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times