Screenwriter Alex Larsen packs in so many ideas that the film is as intellectually dense as anything by Jean-Luc Godard, though director Joseph Kahn maintains a fluid style throughout.

| Feb 24, 2020

It's neither a rewarding drama nor a substantial set of ideas, but its implications and by-products, suggestions and overtones are far more enjoyable to contemplate than the movie is to experience.

| Nov 9, 2018

Bodied is uneven, but it has the fire where it counts.

| Nov 5, 2018

Bodied is a deliriously rude provocation, maybe the most daring race-related movie since Spike Lee's Bamboozled.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 4, 2018

Along the way, there are good laughs, brain-rattling battles... and the kind of incisive social commentary that actually surprises with its targets and revelations.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 3, 2018

We tip our caps to Kahn & Co.'s underdog story. But satire-wise, there's some killer bars left on the killing floor here.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 2, 2018

It's juvenile. It's irritating. Yet it's also fiendishly clever in the way it anticipates and dismantles every argument that could be made against it, and how it sneakily affirms the power of the words it slings around so freely.

| Nov 1, 2018

Like its subject matter, "Bodied" is bold storytelling with no punches pulled.

| Original Score: A- | Nov 1, 2018

Bodied is a comedy of ill manners, fraught as it is with a veritable encyclopedia of contemporaneous qualms confronted and contested with some seriously dope hustle and flow. Tag this one #badassseriousfun.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 1, 2018

With visuals as kinetic as its language, Joseph Kahn's "Bodied" is an outrageously smart, shockingly funny satire of P.C. culture whose words gush so quickly you'll want to see it twice.

| Nov 1, 2018

Scene for scene, this is a remarkable film, superbly acted, directed, photographed and edited, thought provoking but unpretentious.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 31, 2018

Simultaneously entertaining, overwhelming, compelling, and grating, Bodied raises its hand and talks until words mean nothing and everything.

| Original Score: B | Oct 30, 2018

The anti-P.C. scorn that establishes a white boy's nervous entry into rap gradually becomes a sincere, if hilarious, treatise on the impossibility of reducing art to value judgments.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 29, 2018

"Bodied" isn't for the easily offended, it'll make you squirm, and it's a total banger best seen with a crowd.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 6, 2018

[Bodied captures] the tone of free-floating, ephemeral anxiety and socially-performative unease that has so far defined 2017, and seems to be lying in wait for the foreseeable future.

| Sep 29, 2017

Offers an entertaining window into a culture that most people probably know very little about, but it's also a clever take on a generation more aware of what's offensive and what's not than any before.

| Sep 22, 2017

"Bodied" doesn't come to any hard conclusions, but suggests that the ultimate cathartic power of rap comes from its ability to be an equal-opportunity offender.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 12, 2017

An outrageous and outrageously entertaining treatise on cultural sensitivity.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 11, 2017

Loosely a battle-rap All About Eve, but it's so thickly packed with technical and verbal dazzle that whatever biting point it might have had to make ends up completely lost.

| Original Score: B | Sep 9, 2017

If the movie runs long in places, the vibrant performances from Worthy and the rest of the cast help push things ahead, and there are enough dynamo battles from start to finish to keep hungry rap fans satisfied.

| Sep 9, 2017