Critical Reception
The film received positive reviews overall. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an 82% rating with 126 "fresh" reviews and 27 "rotten" reviews, and a 80% audience rating. Metacritic gives the film a rating of 68/100 based on 37 reviews. The Boston Globe said, "Some will find it chicly inspired, recalling blaxploitation's heyday with its grimy urban realism. Some will rightly find it corny, absurd, and an insultingly limited presentation of options for the most disenfranchised African-Americans.."
According to Entertainment Weekly, "The home-studio recording sequences in Hustle & Flow are funky, rowdy, and indelible. Brewer gives us the pleasure of watching characters create music from the ground up."
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