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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Thanks to Queen Latifah, it manages to keep its comic shape, even with the wind of familiarity blowing around. Read more
Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: Has nothing new to say, but it has a lot of fun covering the same old territory. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: It's a bouncy, funny picture that I enjoyed -- one that mostly eludes the perils of sequelitis and spinoff-itis, a lusty comedy about the importance of looking good and getting the right scissors in the right hands. Read more
Judy Chia Hui Hsu, Seattle Times: This spinoff lacks the repartee and thought-provoking social commentary of the original and its sequel. Instead, we get dumbed-down characters and juvenile booty jokes. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: I thought this was too much like the pilot for a sitcom. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The movie has a solid moral core that uses stereotypes to impart important lessons about respect, tolerance and hair conditioner. And Queen Latifah is irresistible. Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: At this point, any humor left in the Barbershop series is limited to a few stray clippings on the floor. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: [A] formulaic but extremely good-natured comedy. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: For all the vivid, amusing characters that surround Gina, Beauty Shop rightly belongs to Latifah, who comes into her own as a star and an actress in this film. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: As in the other two movies, the plot is a thin cardboard box carrying an assortment of observational doughnuts. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Needs highlights and a trim. Read more
Michael Booth, Denver Post: The result is not so much a follow-up as a newly conceived comedy, and a good one at that. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: It's a boisterous and amiable movie but not, in the end, a very funny one. Read more
Dallas Morning News: A fluff job. Read more
Ernest Hardy, L.A. Weekly: Its lackluster efforts to be raunchily topical about issues of race, class and sexuality leave its talented cast stranded without a paddle. Read more
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: The film resides in the realm of mediocrity, dreadful in spots, enjoyable on occasion, and disposable throughout. Read more
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: All jokes and plot points are telegraphed. You couldn't miss the clues even if your head was in the sink. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: Beauty Shop extends the popular Barbershop franchise to Atlanta and provides a sassy feminine counterpart to its cozy men's-club vibe. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: You take the good with the bad. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It's refreshing how most of the movie is essentially about the characters, their stories, their lives. Read more
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: Playing an eccentric beautician who changes her look everyday, the incandescent Alfre Woodard shows she's as adept at comedy as drama. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: A dull script and slack direction. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Looks, feels and unfolds with measured sitcom familiarity, right down to the storming of characters through the shop's doors and the relentless crossfire of sassy putdowns. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Overall, the parts don't come together and jell as well as they did in the Barbershop films. Read more
Joe Leydon, Variety: Feel-good entertainment that is no less enjoyable for being somewhat predictable. Read more
Akiva Gottlieb, Village Voice: Girls just wanna have fun, and so does the film, which recycles the requisite moralizing into a breezy, sporadically funny package. Read more
Jennifer Frey, Washington Post: Latifah is, well, Latifah playing herself -- funny, brash, smart, likable and not willing to take any garbage from anyone. Read more
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