Singleton's main goal is the vivid re-creation of mob violence, and he achieves it expertly.

Singleton's boldness is invigorating _ and merciless.

Harrowing this may be, but the concessions to commercialism rob it of much of its genuine power.

Undoubtedly a great movie could have been made of this still unhealed scab on the body politic. But "Rosewood," John Singleton's film of these events, isn't it.