I have seen all of the director’s films mentioned in this thread. I consider Fresh to be one of the finest films of the past decade. It is one of only a handful of movies I immediately watched again after seeing it the first time on video.
My reaction to finding that he had made Uptown Girls was quite the opposite of lissener’s. I am appalled that the director would choose to waste his talent on such an obviously ill-fated film. He had accumulated enough clout to choose a better project. Thus my groaning at the previews.