Baby Boy
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Universal acclaim- based on 13 Ratings
- Summary:
- Director: John Singleton
- Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance, Crime
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Positive: 9 out of 26
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Mixed: 14 out of 26
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Negative: 3 out of 26
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88Now Singleton, too, dares to take a hard look at his community. His characters are a little older, and he is older, too, and less forgiving.
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80Lacks the cumulative impact of "Boyz," since Singleton allows repetition and sermonizing to dull his theme about the infantilization of black males. But Baby Boy leaves you shaken.
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60Superbly acted by everyone involved (Rhames does his best work since "Pulp Fiction"), the film is really more about character than plot, though frankly, at more than two hours, it could have used a bit more of the latter.
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38A mistaken message is a price a filmmaker pays when he tries to load weighty themes like the cycle of violence on an overgrown boy who scoots around on a bicycle.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 9 out of 11
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Mixed: 2 out of 11
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Negative: 0 out of 11
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