It is perhaps one of the best of the few films in the last several years to give voice to the stress and struggle of being poor, working class, black and female in downsized America.

An important film that continues to challenge old and new audiences.

F. Gary Gray does so nearly flawlessly because he understands that first and foremost the story belongs to the Black women upon whose shoulders this entangled mess has always fallen onto in the first place.

…the ebullience of 1970’s exploitation features like Coffy finds a more measured but still entertaining medium in F.Gary Gray's Set It Off…offers a convincing account of how easily urban experiences could be radicalised even back in the sleepy 1990’s…