Baby Boy

An easy movie to pick apart, but it lives, breathes and switches moods from humor to despair better than any American release this year.Read Full Review »

Now Singleton, too, dares to take a hard look at his community. His characters are a little older, and he is older, too, and less forgiving.Read Full Review »

Jody's story is told with so much heart -- and his character is acted with such a winning combination of playfulness, vulnerability and sexual dynamism by Mr. Gibson -- that you can forgive the occasionally incoherent storytelling, the overwrought moments and the haphazard, unconvincing excursions into dream and fantasy.Read Full Review »

Lacks the cumulative impact of "Boyz," since Singleton allows repetition and sermonizing to dull his theme about the infantilization of black males. But Baby Boy leaves you shaken.Read Full Review »

What holds the movie together, however, is Gibson's broodingly responsive performance.Read Full Review »

At once too neat and too messy, but films like this are too rare to leave it at that. Ragged but ambitious, it retains a core of genuine emotion -- this picture is doing the best it can, and although that may not be everything, it ought to count for something.Read Full Review »

Rambling and conflicted as it is, it's one of the most entertaining African-American comedies of manners ever made.Read Full Review »

You may or may not like what you see, but there it is, indisputably, right in your face.Read Full Review »

The movie makes an over-long deal about Jody's immaturity and never seems to get beyond it.Read Full Review »

Pretty much a mess, but it also has a couple of long stretches that are extremely daring in that they reveal black family dynamics we've never seen on screen before.Read Full Review »