Head of State Reviews
Common Sense Media
Chris Rock runs for president.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Film Threat
'...Along comes Chris Rock with "Head of State", a mild comedy...'
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)
Not merely satisfied with stereotyping whites, Rock insists on taking shots at blacks, fat people, poor people and even spina bifida patients.
| Original Score: 1/4
Low IQ Canadian
Chris Rock suffers from painful verbal constipation in this PG-13 clunker. Hollywood, make it NC-17 when Chris and Bernie run for re-election.
Apollo Guide
Although a reheated formula, Head of State dishes out a few original laughs due to in part to the writing of Chris Rock.
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| Original Score: 68/100
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)
It may be an overly simplistic fantasy, but it's a funny one, and you won't find anything at the cineplex more relevant.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Rock serves as star, director, co-writer, and co-producer, so he can't point fingers at anyone else when the film loses its way.
Full Review | Original Score: 1/5
Las Vegas Weekly
With the whole country watching him, Chris Rock has absolutely nothing of substance to say.
| Original Score: 2/5
State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL)
Like so many of his other films, it's still not the movie that Chris Rock's fans know he's capable of making.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4
Laramie Movie Scope
Another mediocre comedy from Chris Rock.
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| Original Score: C
FilmStew.com
. . .no one has talked about prosecuting Chris Rock for his torture of a captive movie audience with his new film Head of State.
Film Snobs
Isn't this the same sort of pandering, middle-brow movie that Chris Rock used to say really means things about in his stand-up act?
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Creative Loafing
Rather than grab the political bull by the horns -- as did Warren Beatty's Bulworth a few years back or Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine a few months back -- Rock is content to merely make a comedy that, after a few trims of choice prof
| Original Score: 2.5/4
Top Critic
Movie Habit
Head of State isn't very good, but there are some funny spots
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| Original Score: 2/4
Cinerina
It's not political satire, and it's also, unfortunately, not very funny.
Full Review | Original Score: 1/5
Nitrate Online
[Rock] seems to think that expanding his critiques to feature-length form requires a cookie-cutter white southern governor as the enemy and lots of "bling bling" style as a positive counterpoint.
Greenwich Village Gazette
A movie should be fun, this isn't.
| Original Score: 2/5
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Well, it's no Pootie Tang -- but then, what is?
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| Original Score: 2/5
