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Shampoo trains a darkly comic lens on post-Nixon America, aiming at -- and often hitting -- an array of timely targets.
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In "Shampoo" Ashby shows that he has a good memory for a couple of decades of cinematic clichés. December 13, 2017 | Full Review…
In "Shampoo" Ashby shows that he has a good memory for a couple of decades of cinematic clichés.
Walter Goodman
There's a self-awareness to Shampoo that gives the movie a cleansing sadness and, oddly, makes Beatty an affectingly amoral roue. April 17, 2012 | Full Review…
There's a self-awareness to Shampoo that gives the movie a cleansing sadness and, oddly, makes Beatty an affectingly amoral roue.
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Shampoo, made in 1975 but set in 1968, the night before Richard Nixon's election to the presidency, was directed by Hal Ashby and written by Robert Towne and Warren Beatty, who may have produced one of the best scripts in the last three decades. June 20, 2008 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…
Shampoo, made in 1975 but set in 1968, the night before Richard Nixon's election to the presidency, was directed by Hal Ashby and written by Robert Towne and Warren Beatty, who may have produced one of the best scripts in the last three decades.
Carina Chocano
All the excellent creative components do not add up to a whole. October 31, 2007 | Full Review…
All the excellent creative components do not add up to a whole.
Variety Staff
The laughs are tempered by bleakness and the film ends up saddened by its characters' waywardness. February 9, 2006 | Full Review…
The laughs are tempered by bleakness and the film ends up saddened by its characters' waywardness.
Disappointment comes in all weights and flavors, but the brand that's generated by Hal Ashby's Shampoo is a bit harder to swallow than some. May 9, 2005 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
Disappointment comes in all weights and flavors, but the brand that's generated by Hal Ashby's Shampoo is a bit harder to swallow than some.
Nora Sayre
A savage satire that sets its sights on hypocrisy, superficiality, and sexual mores. March 14, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
A savage satire that sets its sights on hypocrisy, superficiality, and sexual mores.
Matt Brunson
...unhurried if not slow, it at times feels downright deflated as characters wander ponderously through mansions and backyards or drive down crowded highways and empty hillside roadways. March 11, 2019 | Rating: 6/10 | Full Review…
...unhurried if not slow, it at times feels downright deflated as characters wander ponderously through mansions and backyards or drive down crowded highways and empty hillside roadways.
Nathanael Hood
Everything about Shampoo is vague, attitudinizing, and lacking in true insight. Not one of its characters is worthy of sympathy. February 10, 2019 | Full Review…
Everything about Shampoo is vague, attitudinizing, and lacking in true insight. Not one of its characters is worthy of sympathy.
John Simon
An immensely-successful film whose vein of strong black humour disguises its criticisms of American morals and society. April 17, 2012 | Full Review…
An immensely-successful film whose vein of strong black humour disguises its criticisms of American morals and society.
Sky Staff
Once you leave the theater, you become hard-pressed to remember much about this film. August 15, 2011 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Once you leave the theater, you become hard-pressed to remember much about this film.
Wesley Lovell
I didn't care much for the trim this satire on a girl crazy Beverly Hills hairdresser gave me. July 17, 2008 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
I didn't care much for the trim this satire on a girl crazy Beverly Hills hairdresser gave me.
Dennis Schwartz
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