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Baghead
Sony Pictures Classics

Baghead reviews
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Metascore: 62 Metascore out of 100
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MPAA RATING: R for language, some sexual content and nudity

Starring Ross Partridge, Steve Zissis, Greta Gerwig, Elise Muller, Jett Garner, and Anthony Cristo

While the Duplass Brothers were shooting their last feature film The Puffy Chair, a crew member raised the question “what’s the scariest thing you can think of?” Someone immediately said “a guy with a bag on his head staring into your window.” Some agreed, but some thought it was downright ridiculous and, if anything, funny (but definitely not scary). Thus, BAGHEAD was born, an attempt to take the absurdly low-concept idea of a “guy with a bag on his head” and make a funny, truthful, endearing film that, maybe, just maybe, was a little bit scary, too. (Sony Pictures Classics)


GENRE(S): Drama  |  Suspense/Thriller  
WRITTEN BY: Jay Duplass
Mark Duplass
 
DIRECTED BY: Jay Duplass
Mark Duplass
 
RELEASE DATE: Theatrical: July 25, 2008 
RUNNING TIME: 84 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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83
Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
Baghead has a nearly documentary quality that infuses it with a sense of heightened stakes and real peril. In a characteristically offhanded way, it's cunningly skillful.
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83
The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
Much of the fun of Baghead is that it's unclassifiable, by turns a movie-movie lark, an Eric Rohmer-like relationship comedy, and a surprisingly effective "Friday The 13th" kids-in-the-woods slasher film.
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80
Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
Baghead is a kick in the pants.
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80
Chicago Reader Staff (Not credited)
A raw, wickedly clever comedy that also includes moments of genuine terror.
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78
Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
Kind of funny and kind of scary, Baghead's central horror motif is merely a structure on which to hang its four-character story about the depth of relationships and the drive to find meaningful work.
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75
San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
An amusing bauble.
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75
Boston Globe Ty Burr
The movie's cheap, it's clever - it's even a little scary in places.
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75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
More clever than smart and isn't always emotionally convincing, but the cast brings a palpable, persuasive awkwardness to the social tensions of this not-so-romantic getaway, and there's a sly wit to the way the filmmakers mix and match and upend genres.
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75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jennie Punter
A late summer treat. And in case you are wondering, yes, there is mumbling.
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75
Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
Baghead will disappoint gore hounds or anyone looking for an extreme horror experience -- this is more of a comedy-drama than anything else.
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70
Los Angeles Times Michael Ordona
The filmmakers maintain a delicate balance that generates tension on multiple levels, including sexual. They giddily mix genres, but Baghead, part meta-cinematic comedy, part relationship drama and part horror movie, remains rooted in reality.
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70
Slate Dana Stevens
They've made a movie about trickery that neatly tricks its viewers into laughing, then screaming, then laughing again.
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70
Variety Peter Debruge
Though its scares are scarce, Baghead provides what nine out of 10 dead-teenagers movies lack: specifically, a realistic sense of character that gives moviegoers a reason to identify with the would-be victims.
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60
New York Magazine David Edelstein
Too bad the movies collapses at the end when we find out what's really going on. Baghead is so much more vivid when it's indefinite.
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60
Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
A very short and cheerfully scruffy comedy-thriller.
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60
NPR Bob Mondello
Spectacularly self-absorbed protagonists step on each other, jockeying first for position, and ultimately for survival.
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60
New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Anybody who missed 2006's excellent indie "The Puffy Chair" has another chance to discover the off-kilter world of the Duplass brothers.
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50
Washington Post Ann Hornaday
Baghead provides a diverting showcase for actors you may never have heard of but who deserve a shot at fame and fortune.
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50
ReelViews James Berardinelli
The acting is a big part of Baghead's problem. Three of the four protagonists are played by performers who do little to distinguish themselves.
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50
New York Post Lou Lumenick
The actors are engaging enough that you only occasionally remember that there really isn't much going on. Then, unfortunately for the audience, something does actually happen.
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40
The New York Times Stephen Holden
The semi-improvised performances, which seem so natural that it is tempting to confuse the actors with their characters, bring Baghead into the realm of group therapy observed through one-way glass.
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38
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
If you walk out after 10 or 15 minutes, you will have seen the best parts of the film.
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30
Village Voice Robert Wilonsky
It's an indie about indies--meta, right?
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