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Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Baby Boy is a movie that will act like a smack in the face to some audiences, while others may simply laugh in recognition. Read more
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Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: For all of its flaws, [Singleton's] spankin' new Baby Boy still packs a punch. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Pootie Tang this ain't. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: Baby Boy earns credibility for its insights by moving beyond image and rhetoric and quickly establishing Jody, his friends, lovers and family members as complex, striving, fallible human beings. Read more
John Zebrowski, Seattle Times: Maybe if Singleton didn't try to repeat Boyz N the Hood with Baby Boy, he would've made a better movie. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: One of the most entertaining African-American comedies of manners ever made. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Baby Boy has its slow parts, its obvious parts, its egregious parts. But it's also a film that can take you to a place no other summer movie can. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Like its characters, this picture is doing the best it can, and although that may not be everything, it ought to count for something. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: The characters are so full-bodied and the feelings so raw and complex that I'd call this the best thing John Singleton has done to date Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: A bracing film, passionate, frightening, sobering and funny all at once. Read more
Steven Rosen, Denver Post: [Singleton] He means for this to be r,38p,11p revelatory, but it is instead exhausting. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: What holds the movie together ... is Gibson's broodingly responsive performance. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: The film is emotionally overloaded with confrontations that repeat like a boxing- match replay that refuses to quit: Jody vs. Mom, Jody vs. Yvette, Jody vs. Melvin, Jody vs. the neighborhood thugs, Jody vs. Jody. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: I felt myself drawn into a vortex of raw emotion from which I could not escape. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: It almost always seems real (at least until the end) and it addresses meaningful issues. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A bold criticism of young black men who carelessly father babies, live off their mothers and don't even think of looking for work. Read more
Mary Elizabeth Williams, Salon.com: [Jody's] lessons on growing up and moving on never ring more than halfhearted and false. Read more
Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle: Baby Boy can be tough going, very tough going, but the cast is built to take it. Read more
Amy Taubin, Village Voice: Without a convincing Jody, Singleton's thesis about a son's absolute need for a father figure is never played out. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: John Singleton must believe the truth will set him free, for he tells it, uncompromisingly, in Baby Boy. You may or may not like what you see, but there it is, indisputably, right in your face. Read more