...the entire script feels like one giant mockery that aims to crowd-please over educating the ignorant and/or condemning the system responsible.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 14, 2024

Justin Simien braids a clever and funny allegory whose central themes are intelligible without being pushy.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 20, 2023

Simien's intentions are noble, but he tries to cram too much into Bad Hair, making for an ultimately confounding end result.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 26, 2023

Bad Hair is a daring critique of white beauty standards that’s as frightening as it is self-awarely camp.

| Sep 28, 2022

Whenever I watch horror my fascination is the actual gore. My favorite horror genres are Body & Revenge and in some way Bad Hair encompasses both.

| Apr 13, 2022

The film isn't quite as trashy as you might like, but it scratches all the itches you might want scratched by a movie about a killer weave. Bring on the sequel.

| Sep 10, 2021

What began as social commentary about the pressures Black women are placed under to transform our hair... turned into a scathing and rather insulting critique of Black women and our culture of protective styling.

| Jul 29, 2021

"Bad Hair" is interesting because of its subject matter and its denunciations, but will probably not satisfy the majority of horror fans.

| Jul 11, 2021

Whilst the genre elements are purposely over the top and often more amusing than scary, the stylish Bad Hair does a great job of getting its message across.

| Jul 5, 2021

Dripping with satirical comments, including the title, throughout the film, Justin Simien knows exactly what he wants to say and how to say it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 2, 2021

In his quest to create a fable about Black women's hair, Simien overlooks the actual function it plays in Black women's lives, opting instead for a superficial finger wag about the value and importance of natural beauty.

| Feb 27, 2021

BAD HAIR is successful at showing all the steps along the way to giving up what makes you special as a person to obey society's demands that you become one of the many.

| Feb 23, 2021

There are sparks here and there but the film mostly fails to deliver thrill or commentary in the right dose.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 16, 2021

Aside from the excruciating hair weave operation, and the pain that follows, I found much of this dark comedy amusing, just because it is so off-the-wall crazy.

| Original Score: B | Dec 27, 2020

This undercurrent of darker humour balances the silliness of some of the hair attack scenes and ensures that the film succeeds as both horror and comedy whilst having more to say than most of what emerges from either genre.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 22, 2020

A Black experience film whose horror satire is good for a few laughs.

| Original Score: C+ | Dec 21, 2020

It's a weave that has a thirst for blood. What's not fun about that?

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 15, 2020

Socio-politics and cultural relevance are just part of Simien's obvious admiration for horror movie heritage. Bad Hair is delightfully old school.

| Dec 8, 2020

Quite simply, this is a fun film with a message, and some suitably-ropey special effects that should have been made in 1989 but thankfully has finally been made in 2020.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 20, 2020

We liked a lot about this movie at #Sundance2020 and this final (shorter!) version is even better. A fun, campy, referential horror film about a weave with its own ambitions - #BadHair has a lot of social commentary, but has fun while saying it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 20, 2020