Spike Lee lashes out at critics who claimed Do the Right Thing would cause riots on release

Spike Lee lashes out at critics who claimed Do the Right Thing would cause riots on release

As he received the Ebert Director Award – named after the late film critic Roger Ebert – at the Toronto International Film Festival Tribute Awards, Spike Lee blasted writers who claimed his 1989 classic ‘Do the Right Thing’ would spark riots when it came out in the late-1980s.