Oh boy. Here we go. Probably everyone should read the Wikipedia page before watching this, eh.
Richard Eder of The New York Times wrote, “[Coonskin] could be his masterpiece […] a shattering successful effort to use an uncommon form—cartoons and live action combined—to convey the hallucinatory violence and frustration of American city life, specifically black city life […] lyrically violent, yet in no way [does it] exploit violence.” Variety called the film a “brutal satire from the streets.
Not for all tastes […] not avant-garde. […] The target audience is youth who read comics in the undergrounds.”