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In the following review, Wilmington offers a positive assessment of Baby Boy, commenting that the film will act like “a smack in the face to some audiences.”
Baby Boy is an uncensored, u...
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In the following review, Harrison offers a positive assessment of Baby Boy.
A decade after Boyz N the Hood, it's easy to forget how impressive an achievement that movie was, especially consider...
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In the following review, Turan offers a generally positive assessment of Baby Boy, but notes that the film is “at once too neat and too messy.”
Given the small number of major studio rel...
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In the following review, Verniere offers a positive assessment of Baby Boy, though notes that the film is undeniably similar to Singleton's Boyz N the Hood.
Boyz N the Hood becomes singular wit...
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In the following review, Sterritt offers a mixed assessment of Baby Boy, arguing that the film “breaks little new ground.”
“He got a Oedipus complex!” exclaims a streetwise...
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In the following interview, Brent and Singleton discuss the visual imagery in Baby Boy.
When John Singleton—then a “bookworm” 21-year-old film-school student, by his own descripti...
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Critical Review by Michael Wilmington
