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Bad Hair's unwieldy ambitions are easy to respect -- even if the film's tonal jumble and uneven execution are impossible to ignore.
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With echoes of camp, B-movies, '80s hip-hop, and female empowerment films of that era, Bad Hair is stunningly ambitious, and that overwhelms most of my issues with it. January 26, 2020 | Full Review…
With echoes of camp, B-movies, '80s hip-hop, and female empowerment films of that era, Bad Hair is stunningly ambitious, and that overwhelms most of my issues with it.
Brian Tallerico
The impression is of a provocative logline that Simien never quite figured out how to expand into a satisfying movie; once you get the thrust of the story, it's mostly repetitions on a theme. January 24, 2020 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
The impression is of a provocative logline that Simien never quite figured out how to expand into a satisfying movie; once you get the thrust of the story, it's mostly repetitions on a theme.
A.A. Dowd
This is Elle Lorraine's feature-film debut, and she's steadily remarkable: assured, intelligent, deadpan, heartbreaking, and finally, terrifying. Her face alone could carry this movie - it's that expressive, that connective. January 24, 2020 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
This is Elle Lorraine's feature-film debut, and she's steadily remarkable: assured, intelligent, deadpan, heartbreaking, and finally, terrifying. Her face alone could carry this movie - it's that expressive, that connective.
David Canfield
"Bad Hair" has plenty to say - about the plight of black women in particular and blackness in popular culture in general - but his movie can't settle on laughing off the conflict or regarding it with dread. January 24, 2020 | Rating: C | Full Review…
"Bad Hair" has plenty to say - about the plight of black women in particular and blackness in popular culture in general - but his movie can't settle on laughing off the conflict or regarding it with dread.
Eric Kohn
Despite many deliriously enjoyable sequences, this is thin material, only fitfully funny, messily executed and more silly than scary, which makes it bit of a disappointment. January 24, 2020 | Full Review…
Despite many deliriously enjoyable sequences, this is thin material, only fitfully funny, messily executed and more silly than scary, which makes it bit of a disappointment.
David Rooney
Simien has a steady handle on his serio-comic tone, at once sly, resonant, and horrific. January 24, 2020 | Rating: A- | Full Review…
Simien has a steady handle on his serio-comic tone, at once sly, resonant, and horrific.
Amy Nicholson
While powerful in its first half exploring Anna and her past, falters as it tries to understand Black women as a collective. Still, it should be commended for trying. February 11, 2020 | Full Review…
While powerful in its first half exploring Anna and her past, falters as it tries to understand Black women as a collective. Still, it should be commended for trying.
Jourdain Searles
With a few trims here and there, Bad Hair could have been a savage satire of the 1980s. February 11, 2020 | Rating: 5/10 | Full Review…
With a few trims here and there, Bad Hair could have been a savage satire of the 1980s.
Norman Gidney
The horror-comedy from the creator of Dear White People, however, doesn't quite stick its landing. February 10, 2020 | Full Review…
The horror-comedy from the creator of Dear White People, however, doesn't quite stick its landing.
Tre'vell Anderson
The truly ironic twist is this puts black women in the same kind of sexist situation white women typically occupy in cinema... That could be a twisted kind of progress I suppose, but nothing resembling a real solution. February 5, 2020 | Rating: D | Full Review…
The truly ironic twist is this puts black women in the same kind of sexist situation white women typically occupy in cinema... That could be a twisted kind of progress I suppose, but nothing resembling a real solution.
Andrea Thompson
The scariest scene is not any of the hair murders. It's the process of getting the weave itself. Simien films the weave in extreme closeup and makes it look like a Saw movie. February 3, 2020 | Full Review…
The scariest scene is not any of the hair murders. It's the process of getting the weave itself. Simien films the weave in extreme closeup and makes it look like a Saw movie.
Fred Topel
A case of a movie only going so far, reaching a point where its parallels become too literal to stick and its plot turns just doesn't know when to quit. February 2, 2020 | Rating: C | Full Review…
A case of a movie only going so far, reaching a point where its parallels become too literal to stick and its plot turns just doesn't know when to quit.
Matt Cipolla
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