Hate

Title: La Haine
Year: 1995
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
Writer: Mathieu Kassovitz
Starring: Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé, Saïd Taghmaoui
Music: Assassin
Distinctions: formerly on IMDB's Top 250
Synopsis: 24 hours in the lives of a Jew, African and Arab from the Paris projects, the day after a riot sparked by police brutality
How I saw it: on video (rented from Netflix), March 2008
Subjective Rating: 7/10 (Good).
Objective Rating: 9/10 (1 point off for cinematography) c. 3.4/4 (Very good).

Nice movie. The story's remarkably good and, surprisingly, fun. Within ten minutes you feel like you know these guys, and they form a great dynamic together. I'm not sure why it's shot in black and white (kind of like a ghetto version of Clerks :P).