Barbershop, Ice Cube | A CUT ABOVE ''Barbershop'' comes through with sharp characters
A CUT ABOVE ''Barbershop'' comes through with sharp characters

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Barbershop (2002)

EW's GRADE
B+

Details Release Date: Dec 31, 2002; Movie Rated: PG-13; Genres: Comedy, Drama; With: Ice Cube; Distributor: MGM

Barbershop, an amiable comedy with an inconsequential plot, follows Calvin (Ice Cube), a third-generation cutter, trying to get his shop back from a hustler. But the true entertainment comes from watching the sprawling crowd of sharply drawn regulars bicker and razz in this charming ''Cheers'' of hair care, where everybody knows your mane. Oh, and Al Sharpton didn't get his wish: Cedric the Entertainer's crackpot cracks about Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks remain intact, although they're not as funny as Sharpton's reactionary demand that they be cut.

Originally posted Dec 23, 2002 Published in issue #689 Jan 03, 2003 Order article reprints
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