Barbershop

Name: Barbershop
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: September 13, 2002
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 66
Cast: Cedric the Entertainer, Eve, Ice Cube

2002

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation (MGM) | Release Date: September 13, 2002 | PG-13

Starring: Cedric the Entertainer, Eve, Ice Cube

Summary: A comedy about a day in the life of a barbershop on the south side of Chicago. [MGM]

Director: Tim Story

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 102 min

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Lou Lumenick

Combines big laughs, a big heart and thoroughly winning characters to become the first big surprise of the fall season. Read full review

Joe Morgenstern

Why, in our drum-thumping, ritually trumpeting time, did so little fanfare precede the opening of a movie with so much to recommend it? This is grand entertainment.

Roger Ebert

There is a kind of music to their conversations, now a lullaby, now a march, now a requiem, now hip-hop, and they play with one another like members of an orchestra. The movie's so good to listen to, it would even work as an audio book. Read full review

Michael Dequina

Much like how its employees and patrons don't want to see the barbershop close, once one has become acquainted with these people and this place, one may not want Barbershop to end. Read full review

Ernest Hardy

Despite the fact that you can see every plot twist a mile off, director Tim Story keeps the script by Mark Brown, Don D. Scott and Marshall Todd rollicking with a jazzy spontaneity. Read full review

Connie Ogle

The film's heart lies in what goes on at Calvin's shop, that haven from the cold, cruel world. Where else can you get philosophy, humor, friendship and a little off the top? Read full review

Peter Travers

Good-natured fun when it isn't stale, which is most of the time, this talky comedy set in a Chicago barber shop is a sitcom pilot disguised as a movie. Read full review

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amheretojudge

May 20, 2019

Just to see Cedric shave and preach, you can stay for the whole day in this shop, it won't get wasted for sure.

Barbershop Story is not much of a narrator, but definitely can tell a funny joke without any jokes. The film feels like some episode of a sitcom. Parallel-y the tales areJust to see Cedric shave and preach, you can stay for the whole day in this shop, it won't get wasted for sure.

Barbershop

Story is not much of a narrator, but definitely can tell a funny joke without any jokes. The film feels like some episode of a sitcom. Parallel-y the tales are enfolded with a revelation of foolishness carved out smartly and calculatively, the director, Tim Story, had to only juggle that very aspect and all was and is game. It is also incredibly and instantly likable, more than even Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing, and probably because it is light on feet, in contrast to Lee's heavy sensitive issue spewed like vengeance, fair and square. Never have I seen a film so smooth and confident in its tiny tales of woe it tells by mocking it and accepting the consequences of it.

Picturing the lifestyle of barbers in a barbershop, in one day, there is a lot to enjoy, learn and laugh from. And as Cedric The Entertainer once says, "If we can't talk straight in a barbershop, then where can we talk straight" and so it does feel that honest. The warmth between the characters comes in easy just as the bitterness does. They are ready to go at each other in a snap and also ready to make up in a snap with Marvin Gaye playing in the background.

Ice Cube as a mislead young man and easily seduced and troubled family guy trying to reach for more, spirals out a chaotic event so big that even a gang that cannot stand each other, stands once and for all, together. To me, Cedric would be the game changer in here, his elderly persona where he treats others like students, his students by heckling and inspiring them in each steps, is a proper reliable statement. Barbershop is a shop for sure, you come in and get what you want, you'd be surprised with the quality of the product and why not, it definitely is a new bold fashion look.… Expand

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TheKavehJ

Apr 4, 2016

Barbershop has it's ups and has it's downs, but it has more downs than it does ups. The film is really boring, and only funny a little bit of the time.

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