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  • Summary: A group of American hairdressers head to Afghanistan to open the country's first post-Taliban beauty school.

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  1. Positive: 15 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 22
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  1. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: M. E. Russell
    100
    The teachers have moxie. The students have courage. Mermin's warm, funny, beautiful and deeply humane documentary certainly honors the latter.
  2. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    88
    So laugh all you want at the proud haircutters of Beauty Without Borders - but don't underestimate what a basic cut and color can mean for a country's future.
  3. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Richard James Havis
    60
    This quirky documentary about a group of American hairdressers who establish exactly that shows that the power of hair salons should never be underestimated.

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  1. JenW.
    2
    This movie was disturbing on many levels, but NOT for the reasons one might expect. The shallowness and total lack of cultural understanding or sensitivity emeplified by the stereotypical rich white women "saving" Afghanistan one haircut at a time left me deeply saddened upon realizing that this movie was not a parody.… Expand
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