Good Hair: Critic Reviews

Chris Rock's deeply funny and very serious documentary about the African-American obsession with straightened tresses.

Spirited, probing and frequently hilarious, it coasts on the fearless charm of its front man and the eye-opening candor of its interviewees.

Rock is not only funny, he's an affable and intelligent host in a documentary that is accessible, breezy and highly informative.

Good Hair, directed by longtime Rock collaborator Jeff Stilson, is such a rollicking, thoroughly entertaining ride that it's easy to take for granted just how easy Rock makes it look.

If you arrive at Good Hair never having thought about the complexities of black hair, bring a notebook. If you are a black woman wearing a weave, bring a tissue.

[A] breezy, superficial doc.

Whether you have good hair or not, there's plenty to appreciate in Chris Rock's rollicking documentary about what goes on when African-American women hit the salon.

Full of sweetly sardonic observations, the docu-comedy is one of the funniest movies of the year.

[Rock] conveys a lot of information, but also some unfortunate opinions and misleading facts. That doesn't mean the movie isn't warm, funny and entertaining.

Rock takes his Good Hair job as a documentarian seriously enough to be interesting, but not so seriously that the film groans with earnestness.

A wonderfully insightful and entertaining, yet remarkably serious, documentary about African American hair culture.

Good Hair is certainly no arid anthropological study. Rock's queries are loose and quippy, but his instincts are as sharp as an investigative journalist's.

Morgan Spurlock, look lively. Sacha Baron Cohen, watch your back. Chris Rock's bright, wisecracking exposA (C) Good Hair is the mane event.

Good Hair is a raucous and rigorous inquiry into the subject of African-American hair -- the stigmas, the secrets, the shocking price of maintenance -- that gets at universal but rarely discussed truths about black femininity.

I've never been much of a Chris Rock fan, but I was riveted by the on-screen interviews he conducts with celebrities like Nia Long and Al Sharpton, as well as regular folk, to explore African-American women's very complicated relationship with their hair.

Scattered as it sometimes seems, Good Hair is a real eye-opener...

It's more TV special material that theatrical release. But thanks to Rock's laid-back humour, Good Hair is also good entertainment.

The film succeeds as a vehicle for Rock's personality.

Chris Rock's Good Hair is one of those rare documentaries that works on two seemingly incongruous levels at once: It's both social commentary and pure delight.

The result is a pop documentary in the Morgan Spurlock mode, cheeky and smart without being too serious.

This entertaining exploration of black hair issues will get your dander up.

Rock sheds new light on this old story through a poignant mix of interviews, investigation and his trademark satire.

An amusing, poignant and surprisingly candid look at the topic with a disarming Rock coaxing answers and opinions from an eclectic cross section of African Americans.

Though Rock's affable nature and probing comic instincts ensure the tone is always light and jocular, his discoveries are sometimes jaw-dropping...

Chris Rock hosts this exploration into hair issues in the African-American community, talking to celebrities, experts and hairdressers. What's surprising is that this is such a big issue, although the film isn't much more than entertaining fluff.