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Hollywood Shuffle overcomes budgetary constraints with sharp humor and infectious energy, heralding the arrival of an exciting new filmmaking talent in the bargain.
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Brimming with imagination and energy, Hollywood Shuffle is the kind of shoestring effort more appealing in theory than execution. March 18, 2008 | Full Review…
Brimming with imagination and energy, Hollywood Shuffle is the kind of shoestring effort more appealing in theory than execution.
Variety Staff
Improv talent Robert Townsend is pretty much the whole show. March 18, 2008 | Full Review…
Improv talent Robert Townsend is pretty much the whole show.
Pat Graham
Despite the film's conspicuously minuscule budget and shaky narrative structure, it is funny. If you value enthusiasm and imagination more than glossy sophistication, you'll laugh. February 9, 2006 | Full Review…
Despite the film's conspicuously minuscule budget and shaky narrative structure, it is funny. If you value enthusiasm and imagination more than glossy sophistication, you'll laugh.
Geoff Andrew
Mr. Townsend has taken aim at the industry's funny bone and struck a solid blow. May 20, 2003 | Rating: 4/5
Mr. Townsend has taken aim at the industry's funny bone and struck a solid blow.
Janet Maslin
For a mere $100,000, Townsend and company have made a funny, poignant and technically proficient film -- one that should thoroughly embarrass those studios that routinely offer up badly made, multimillion-dollar disasters. January 1, 2000 | Full Review…
For a mere $100,000, Townsend and company have made a funny, poignant and technically proficient film -- one that should thoroughly embarrass those studios that routinely offer up badly made, multimillion-dollar disasters.
Richard Harrington
Under the circumstances, Hollywood Shuffle is an artistic compromise but a logistical triumph, announcing the arrival of a new talent whose next movie should really be something. January 1, 2000 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Under the circumstances, Hollywood Shuffle is an artistic compromise but a logistical triumph, announcing the arrival of a new talent whose next movie should really be something.
Roger Ebert
A very funny satire that still holds up March 16, 2020 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
A very funny satire that still holds up
Rachel Wagner
...presaged a revolution that never came. May 15, 2016 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
...presaged a revolution that never came.
Josh Larsen
Townsend's low-budget indie is quite a poignant satire of the Hollywood industry and black stereotyping April 22, 2011 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
Townsend's low-budget indie is quite a poignant satire of the Hollywood industry and black stereotyping
Emanuel Levy
Always enjoyable and Townsend is great. March 18, 2008 | Full Review…
Always enjoyable and Townsend is great.
Although haphazardly paced and scattershot in approach, when it works, this satire on Hollywood's attitudes toward African-Americans is downright hilarious. March 18, 2008 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Although haphazardly paced and scattershot in approach, when it works, this satire on Hollywood's attitudes toward African-Americans is downright hilarious.
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