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45 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 9 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 9
  3. Negative: 1 out of 9
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  1. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    70
    Hoch's very funny satire on racial stereotyping cuts both ways.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Anita Gates
    70
    Deceptively silly, ultimately intelligent.
  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Robert Dominguez
    50
    Despite its good intentions, Whiteboys -- a serio-comic examination of hip-hop's influence on suburban white youth -- comes off as little more than a fleshed-out skit.
  4. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Foreman
    50
    Without a real story to go with the notion of Farm Belt "wiggas," the humor wears thinner and thinner until it disappears.
  5. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    50
    Dopey, not dope.
  6. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Paul Cullum
    40
    Can never quite decide whether it's after the humor implicit in what seems conceived as satire, or the agitprop frissons of race and class theory.
  7. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Jessica Winter
    40
    Not a movie that can afford to take itself seriously.
  8. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Gene Seymour
    40
    Documents accurately the capacity of pop culture to make mongrels of its consumers. But it doesn't quite know (or want to know) what to make of it.
  9. Variety
    Reviewed by: Lisa Nesselson
    30
    Too many scenes play like actors acting rather than life being lived as pic lurches around with ragged variations in tone.
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9.0 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 10 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
  1. SteiniE.
    9
    This movie is one of the most underrated movie of all times. Acting, script and photography is topnotch! Danny Hoch is a genius.
  2. StoneyM.
    10
    quality film i found it so funny it was unbelievable. best time to watch is when ur stoned.
  3. spongeee
    10
    If you don't see the dual nature comedy or the ultimate point/meaning of this movie, then you just don't think like some of us. It's over the top, it's laugh out loud funny, and it is as smart as Bamboolzed (which was a classic). The script is perfect, its three different lives, in one city, and how they interpret and live "Hip Hop," better yet how they view black culture as a whole. The acting was great and made the script come to life. There is not a dull moment because the story movies forward until its climax and then brings you back down but does it so effortlessly. And pay attention to the last lines of the movie. That sums up the motivation of the white boyz in this movie. and maybe some of the white boyz out there really "acting" like this.… Full Review »
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