It's more first-person journal and travelogue than it is cultural archaeology, and as such it's basically OK.

| May 19, 2012

As a documentary dissertation on all that it means to be male in the modern world, you'd be better off investing in the complete works of Ernest Hemingway and watching a few Samuel Fuller and/or John Milius films.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 18, 2012

There's no real center to the film's potentially insightful topic, with Spurlock never zeroing in on a cohesive message.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 18, 2012

As documentaries go, this is lip gloss.

| Original Score: C | May 18, 2012

The movie purports to be a lighthearted look at changing notions of masculinity and appearance. But unless you find something intrinsically hilarious about a man getting a pedicure, laughs are scarce.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 18, 2012

This complete waste of 82 minutes finds documentarian Morgan Spurlock taking a look at current trends in men's grooming, featuring interviews with a random sampling of people who have no idea what they're talking about - but they're famous.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 17, 2012

Mansome's crowning achievement is its title.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 17, 2012

It feels like a bunch of television segments slapped together, with sparing use of Mr. Spurlock himself.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 17, 2012

Spurlock certainly gets points for, well, fresh territory.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 17, 2012

Morgan Spurlock's latest nonthreatening documentary fails to find much point in its subject: men's grooming.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 17, 2012

It's a movie so late in noticing a shift in American male grooming that for a documentary on the subject to work, Spurlock would either have to pitch it to our grandparents (or be a grandparent) or trace the arc of the shift and unpack it.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 17, 2012

A skin-deep look at the state of contemporary masculinity.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 17, 2012

A time-waster that lives down to its title.

| Original Score: F | May 17, 2012

The sociological commentary and historical perspectives are superficial at best and the targets often too easy.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 16, 2012

The best thing about the movie is that it keeps drawing conclusions in opposite directions.

| Original Score: B+ | May 16, 2012

A frustratingly frothy film that says nothing about its subject.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 15, 2012

While making a priority of squeezing in every usable bit of celebrity face-time, Mansome passes by potentially interesting digressions without more than a wayward glance.

| May 15, 2012