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Gettin' the Man's Foot Outta Your Baadasssss!
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Metascore
75 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 33 Critics What's this?

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8.3 out of 10

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 29 out of 33
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 33
  3. Negative: 1 out of 33
  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    100
    What's fascinating is the way Mario, working from his father's autobiography and his own memories, has somehow used his first-hand experience without being cornered by it.
  2. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    60
    The movie is at its best when it's most straightforward. Flights of fancy like the child angel perched on Melvin's ceiling or his conversations with the black-clad Sweetback, who appears to undermine his confidence at crucial junctures, seem forced and pointless.
  3. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Michael O'Sullivan
    30
    While the younger Van Peebles certainly looks the part, Baadasssss! never feels like anything more than kids playing dress-up.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. ChadS.
    7
    "Badasssss!" uses an ongoing oral history as told by the actors, but it's doubtful anybody would have minded if the filmmaker borrowed "American Splendor['s]" technique of using actual documentary footage within the film's narrative. Better yet, tell the story sans running commentary. In spite of this distraction, "Badassss!" tells an important truth about independent film; that it wasn't John Sayles who followed in the immediate footsteps of John Cassavettes. "Sweetback's Badassss Song" preceeded "The Return of the Secaucus Seven" by nine years. Ironically, however, this movie will probably age better than the revolutionary film that inspired it. No disrespect. The same thing would happen if somebody made a film about Lizzie Borden("Born in Flames").… Expand
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