The Wood: Critic Reviews
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MovieWeb: 0 reviews
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RottenTomatoes: 50 reviews
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Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)67Famuyiwa has kicked up fertile new storytelling territory for black filmmakers.Full Review » 12 years ago
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Stephen Holden New York Times (Top Critic)A savvy, good-natured comedy!Full Review » 12 years ago
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Michael O'Sullivan Washington Post (Top Critic)The Wood spends too much time wallowing in arrested adolescence to make you feel you've traveled anywhere.Full Review » 12 years ago
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Rashod D. Ollison Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)It's about time someone made a movie with black male characters who are believable and funny without being buffoonish.Full Review » 12 years ago
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Peter Rainer New York Magazine (Top Critic)Inane coming-of-age comedy.Full Review » 12 years ago
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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)75The growing-up stuff is kind of wonderful.Full Review » 12 years ago
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Barbara Shulgasser Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)Awkward performances, unsure directing flaw The Wood.Full Review » 12 years ago
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Susan Stark Detroit News (Top Critic)75Since positive images of middle-class black friendships and romance remain rare while gangster tales, drugs and gang gunfire dominate the screen, The Wood gets bonus points.Full Review » 12 years ago
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Robert Koehler Variety (Top Critic)This rambling and episodic autobiographical saga of three friends coming of age in Inglewood, Calif. in the '80s is so determined to be likable that it forgets to be interesting.Full Review » 12 years ago
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Jonathan Foreman New York Post (Top Critic)Artificial, tension-free.Full Review » 12 years ago
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Tom Keogh Film.com (Top Critic)A fair and admirable comedy we haven't quite seen before.Full Review » 12 years ago
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Liam Lacey Globe and Mail (Top Critic)63Choppy coming-of-age story.Full Review » 9 years ago
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James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)63The Wood is a solid debut for director Famuyiwa.Full Review » 12 years ago
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Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)70An across-the-board delight featuring a spot-on ensemble cast that treats the most awkward and embarrassing moments in the rites of passage with affectionate hilarity.Full Review » 11 years ago
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Film Threat30Full Review » 6 years ago
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Apollo Guide61Full Review » 8 years ago
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Susan Tavernetti Palo Alto Weekly75Full Review » 9 years ago
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Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette40Full Review » 9 years ago
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Linda Cook Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)80Full Review » 9 years ago
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Tom Meek Film Threat30It wants to be Boyz in the Hood (Boyz in the Wood) but the obscenity laced dialogue and raw objectification of woman renders it a contrite pretender more along the lines of Booty Call and Trippin.Full Review » 9 years ago
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Leslie Felperin Sight and SoundNever delves much deeper into the three friends' psychology than a sitcom pilot would, though the cast try their best.Full Review » 9 years ago
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Margaret A. McGurk Cincinnati Enquirer75A charmer, a heartfelt memoir full of the buoyant good spirits and free-wheeling fun that, say, American Pie never had.Full Review » 10 years ago
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Brent Simon Entertainment Today34A well-intentioned exercise in humanism... but as art or a successful narrative, the movie is ultimately empty.Full Review » 10 years ago
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Wade Major Boxoffice Magazine70Heartfelt honesty and a determined refusal to resort to exploitative stereotypes help make The Wood an uncommonly uplifting experience for audiences of all races and backgrounds.Full Review » 10 years ago
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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Spirituality and PracticeThree middle-class African-American men yearn to stay forever young as they struggle with their relationships with women.Full Review » 10 years ago
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