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

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

A banal, sepulchral tour through the failures of the Black male imagination supported by an industry that bleeds Black folks for inspiration but doesn't care for their very humanity either.

| Oct 30, 2020

Praise, Rip Taylor! Camp is alive and well.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 30, 2020

I love this movie. It is so weird -- small, strange, and fun. An unabashed B-horror movie, but it's got a lot more on its mind.

| Oct 24, 2020

Simien's efforts are valiant and, above all else, wholly original, so when he decides to ramp Bad Hair into overdrive, it's easy to forget about his unintentionally hollow metaphor.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 23, 2020

But while the comedy aspect of this Sundance standout works in parts, the horror of it all suffers from knotty reasoning and an unclear thesis.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 23, 2020

By playing coy with what the notion of good and bad hair means to its owners, Bad Hair fails at the kind of Black experience-related relevance Jordan Peele wrung out of Get Out.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 23, 2020

If Bad Hair feels overstuffed and ultimately slight when it comes to its central conceit around hair, at the very least it's still a fun ride.

| Oct 23, 2020

Despite the potentially heavy (or heavy-handed) material, "Bad Hair" is self-consciously and pleasingly campy...

| Oct 22, 2020

More humorously incisive than truly terrifying... Simien creates space to discuss the ways in which women enforce unfair standards of beauty on each other in a white patriarchal society, using the horror genre as a blunt but effective tool.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 21, 2020

There's a good movie in here - if anyone finds it, please let me know.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 21, 2020

"Bad Hair" is a good idea buried within a scattershot, ultimately mediocre movie.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 21, 2020

The movie is creepy and realistically good, which says a lot about the real-life horrific things women go through to have "acceptable" hair...

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

The film has an exciting, lived-in quality that elevates what are otherwise some markedly unsteady attempts at horror.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 19, 2020

[A] satirical horror film with big laughs and some genuine scares.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 19, 2020

The horror-comedy from the creator of Dear White People, however, doesn't quite stick its landing.

| Feb 10, 2020

With echoes of camp, B-movies, '80s hip-hop, and female empowerment films of that era, Bad Hair is stunningly ambitious, and that overwhelms most of my issues with it.

| Jan 26, 2020

... despite the great acting and nuances of Black womanhood, especially as it pertains to our relationship with our hair... Bad Hair doesn't quite know what it wants to say, leaving its audience stumbling around for answers.

| Jan 25, 2020

Unfortunately Bad Hair never makes a clear stance on whether or not the movie is about how the achievement of those aesthetics divide the community, or if this is a fight against the status quo.

| Jan 24, 2020