Dave Chappelle's Block Party

"A heady spirit of spontaneity permeates the proceedings, suggesting the entire pic, much like the concert it documents, was conceived, planned and completed in a burst of creative enthusiasm..."

"Mr. Chappelle looks and sounds alternately ebullient and weary. It was directed by madcap genius Michel ndry, but in its tone and vibe feels like Mr. Chappelle's all the way..."

"There's ample coverage to send audiences into a cheering, head-bobbing, finger-wagging frenzy, and Gondry's loose editing and camerawork complement the improvisational feel of Chappelle's comic banter..."

"Once in a great while there's a movie that's so funny, infectious and welcoming - a movie that makes you feel so od about America and the people in it - you just want to climb inside the screen and live there. That's the case with "Dave Chappelle's Block Party" - part comedy, part concert film, part avant-garde experiment, and all of it a joy..."

"Chappelle's comedy comes from dissection of race, but as an actual comic he is naturally funny: laidback but paradoxically almost always 'on', he enjoys himself the entire way through..."

"The word "community" has become a cliche, but this party illustrates a specific sense of cultural community and the singular bliss of standing on a street in summer rain for a once-in-a-lifetime..."