Reception
Five years after 9/11, Mike LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote, "Released 15 months after Sept. 11, 2001, Spike Lee's "25th Hour" is the only great film dealing with the Sept. 11 tragedy... "25th Hour" is as much an urban historical document as Rossellini's "Open City," filmed in the immediate aftermath of the Nazi occupation of Rome."
The film received a 78% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 161 reviews. Film critic Roger Ebert added this film to his "Great Movies" list on December 16, 2009. A. O. Scott, Richard Roeper and Roger Ebert all put it on their "best films of the decade list".
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