The surprising added ingredient is art, a particularly cinematic and choreographic artistry that gives the film the simplicity and strength of a story ballet.

| Nov 9, 2021

Forman's film is much more than a curiosity showing that extravagant risks can pay off. It is, first and foremost, a great screen musical comedy.

| Nov 9, 2021

Director Milos Forman and his production team have performed an artistic task akin to carefully restoring a chandelier... It is new -- but it is not.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 9, 2021

Although some of the music retains its pulsating vitality and the informal ballet is resourcefully executed, the ideas are passé.

| Nov 9, 2021

Hair has, in the main, such a liberating euphoria that you feel ten years younger instead of just wishing you were.

| Nov 9, 2021

The fact of the matter is that the under-25s who form the main part of most audiences nowadays are receiving it as a blinding revelation. Unfortunately it's stale cheese to me, and I'm writing this review.

| Nov 8, 2021

It's a movie musical, and it is very much like the original show: when it is good, it is very, very good; when it is bad, it is horrid.

| Nov 8, 2021

Hair is a joyous celebration of the liberating 1960s, a rare flight of creative imagination that widens the dimensions of the movie musical.

| Nov 8, 2021

Forman, a Czech with a quite uncanny eye for the way things are -- and in this case were -- in America, has fashioned an astonishing movie from meagre and distinctly unpromising ingredients.

| Nov 8, 2021

The movie is a delight. It's fluffy, impossibly contrived and it couldn't have made much sense to the actors while they were making it -- but it's fun.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 8, 2021

Hair is worth seeing for its razzle dazzle choreography by Twyla Tharp and the visual pyrotechnics of cameraman Miroslav Ondrícek. It's a big brassy musical. What the film lacks most is depth of character.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 8, 2021

[Milos Forman] has advanced the art of movie musicals to the point where Hair has to be the one against which all others are measured for a long time to come.

| Nov 5, 2021

Hair is the best film musical since Cabaret and, like Cabaret, it is a fine and innovative use of the medium and an entertainment that is also an illumination of history.

| Nov 5, 2021

Hair succeeds at all levels -- as lowdown fun, as affecting drama, as exhilarating spectacle and as provocative social observation.

| Nov 5, 2021

Save your breath totaling up the reasons why Hair is supposed to be a lousy movie. The fact is, it meets all the built-in challenges and emerges as a thoroughly entertaining screen experience.

| Nov 4, 2021

Forman enriches this amateur-hour structure by giving darned near every number a double meaning.

| Nov 4, 2021

[Berger is] played marvelously by Treat Williams, who really makes the whole movie click.

| Nov 4, 2021

You either are free or you are not. That also was the theme of Forman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. But Hair, I think, is a better film. It immediately joins the ranks of the greatest musicals on film.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 4, 2021

It's a highly structured creation of something resembling that Sixties phenomenon, the "happening." Unlike the happening, however, one gets a clear sense of control, of discipline. That's what gives Hair its freewheeling and uninhibited aura.

| Nov 4, 2021

As in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Milos Forman has directed, with great style and energy, a film that would've been courageous 10 years ago.

| Nov 4, 2021