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	Barbershop - Jef - www.Film-Critiques.com
		The premise is that Calvin, was left his father's barbershop when he passed away about 2 years ago.
		This Barbershop was established by Calvin's grandfather in 1958, and passed down, so it has a long history in the community and the family.
		Well, Calvin is having a tough time making a go at the barbershop business, due to the fact that his heart is not really in it.
	www.film-critiques.com /Barbershop1J.html (328 words)

	Barbershop (2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Barbershop was very amusing as a whole and contained many bits that worked to perfection - I just felt a couple of side stories were poorly executed and there were some easily spotted drags in certain portions of the film.
		While Barbershop is no Lord of the Rings: Extended Edition, it’s still quite an impressive set and a very welcome one for a film that came out of nowhere to become a huge hit at the box office.
		Barbershop was a great find and for those of us that missed it during its theatrical run — and for those that saw it and loved it — MGM has provided a marvelous DVD for us to enjoy over and over again from the comfort of our home viewing area.
	www.dvdmg.com /barbershop.shtml (2525 words)

	Political Film Society - Barbershop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Barbershops have long been sanctuaries for men to express opinions to one another on any subject.
		His father started the barbershop in 1958, but he is not turning a profit because his patrons have very little spending money in an America where more than 20 percent of the population is below the poverty line.
		Calvin accepts the funds on the condition that the "Barbershop" sign will never come down, but later Lester tells him that he will remodel the shop to be a gentleman's club that will retain the name "Barbershop." When Calvin's wife Jennifer (played by Jazsmin Lewis) finds out about the sale, she is indignant.
	www.geocities.com /~polfilms/barbershop.html (430 words)

	"Barbershop" with Cedric the Entertainer reviewed by Steve Sailer for UPI
		The modestly budgeted ensemble comedy "Barbershop" is one of the most likeable movies of the year, a fl "My Big Fat Greek Wedding." The movie is for the African-American audience, but its appeal could be broad -- at least to nonfls who can decipher the dialogue.
		During one long, possibly final, day at the barbershop, he learns just how important his small business is to the people around him, and to his responsibilities as a husband and new father.
		Barbershops play a particularly important role for men in the "inner city community" precisely because, as Jamaican-born Harvard sociologist Orlando Patterson has observed, due to low rates of stable employment and marriage it's just not all that much of a community.
	www.isteve.com /Film_Barbershop.htm (700 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Barbershop at Epinions.com
		Sure, the barbershop element of its story was only on the periphery, but those few scenes, in which Eddie Murphy plays two and sometimes three characters, were certainly the highlight of the movie.
		In it, the barbershop is portrayed as meeting ground, community centre, and social club, while the barber is part stylist, part counselor, part fashion expert, and part pimp (that last bit might just be the wishful thinking of one of the film's funnier characters).
		And the film, which isn't tightly plotted to begin with (it doesn't really have to be; the 'playing the dozens' scenes in the shop were enough to make it worthwhile for me), concludes with a ridiculous deus ex machina ending.
	www.epinions.com /content_77048680068 (1550 words)

	Barbershop: triple j film reviews
		Barbershop perhaps isn't as good as those mentioned, but it is a lot of fun and has its say, and how.
		Barbershop isn't corrupted by the romance or nostalgia that could easily go along with a film like this, but it does define the historical import of these neighbourhood 'institutions'.
		You'd be hard-pressed to find a film as genuine as Barbershop around at the moment, and as genuinely funny (Cedric the Entertainer is a standout as the curmudgeonly Eddie, a dude not afraid to speak his mind inside the 'sacred' space that is the barbershop).
	www.abc.net.au /triplej/review/film/s866819.htm (597 words)

	FILM-Review-Barbershop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The sequel arrives a scant 18 months after the first film, but it does not feel like a rush job knocked off to turn a quick buck.
		Barbershop 2, though showing clear signs of the Hollywood-franchise commercialism, maintains the original's mix of sweetness and urban attitude while incorporating dramatic undertones that nicely complement the broad comedy.
		The affectionately quarrelsome camaraderie of Calvin's barbershop denizens is undermined somewhat by the addition of Queen Latifah as Gina, the owner of a salon next door.
	www.cp.org /english/online/full/Entertainment/040206/e020624A.html (526 words)

	February 2004 \| blackfilm.com \| reviews \| film \| barbershop 2
		Barbershop 2 is the ultimate rarity in the world of franchise films.
		The film intersperses present day with the story of how Eddie came to be at the barbershop.
		Barbershop 2 is a very funny film that has a lot of heart.
	www.blackfilm.com /20040206/reviews/barbershop2.shtml (939 words)

	BBC - Films - review - Barbershop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The barbershop in question is the perfect place to meet up and chew the fat.
		Calvin (Ice Cube) inherited his barbershop from his father but, in an attempt to move with the times and start his own business, sells it to the local loan shark Lester (Keith David).
		It's not hard to see where all this will end but, as unadventurous as they are, the film's stock characters are very appealing, as is the pleasure of eavesdropping on them.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2003/02/14/barbershop_2003_review.shtml (393 words)

	slant // magazine.com: Film Review - Barbershop
		When the barbershop faces foreclosure, Calvin sells it to a smarmy loan shark for $20,000 only to want it back when he learns just how important the place is to the community.
		In the end, it's all about the goings-on inside the barbershop: sisters learn not to slam doors; egos are deflated; and history gets a major beat down.
		Barbershop is a vaudeville display of ethnic pride; it's ennobled by its simplicity but it offers nothing daring or refreshing on the topic of race or civic relations.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=493 (239 words)

	Hour.ca - Film - Movie details - Barbershop
		Barbershop is great about portraying the comraderie among the customers who frequent the place.
		This movie was mostly entertaining comedy with drama, The movie "Barbershop" actor star is Ice Cube as Calvin who is the owner of a barbershop that has been passed down in his family for generations.
		If you really want to watch a hilarious film I recommend that you watch the film "Barbershop" which is one of the best comedy films of 2002.
	www.hour.ca /redirect.aspx?iIDCritique=8145 (996 words)

	Film Quips \| BARBERSHOP
		Regardless of the news surrounding it, Barbershop is for the most part a funny, thought-provoking, and well-performed film that deserves to be seen.
		Though his deceased father has passed into legend for his many years of ownership and his generosity with the poor, Calvin himself is plagued with debts, his wife (Jazsmin Lewis) is expecting their first child, and his last loan application fell through.
		While Cedric's age make-up, with fake-looking pieces of cotton inserted in his hair, is neither convincing nor necessary, his portrayal is often howlingly funny, and his opinions, controversial or not, provide a side of the race issue not often seen by white folks.
	www.filmquipsonline.com /barbershop.html (489 words)

	RTE.ie Entertainment - Barbershop
		Although described as an ensemble comedy, it manages to waste a quality cast on a wafer-thin plot with one-liners that are too few and far between to stage a rescue mission.
		It's the barbershop that time forgot, full of old-fashioned chairs, yellowing photos, populated by elderly chequer players and clichés - but no mention of drugs, gangs or drive-by shootings despite its location in a run-down Chicago neighbourhood.
		Where 'Barbershop' does score, however, is in having Cedric the Entertainer as senior cutter Eddie.
	www.rte.ie /arts/2003/0313/barbershop.html (402 words)

	FilmJerk.com - Film Review: "Barbershop 2: Back in Business" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Call me a curmudgeon, but I found the first “Barbershop” to be an earnest, but helplessly disorganized motion picture, mixing long periods of welcome thought on the erosion of community pride with awful slapstick and 1st gear romances.
		“Barbershop 2” has the benefit of hindsight, with new director Kevin Rodney Sullivan (“How Stella Got Her Groove Back”) mixing the varying temperatures of the screenplay with more skill and an genuine effort to sharpen the pace.
		What the two “Barbershop” films symbolize to the urban cinematic landscape is far more important than the films themselves, but “Barbershop 2” is a definite improvement on the core idea, and that’s all I was looking for.
	www.filmjerk.com /new/article-print-812.html (536 words)

	Film Review: 'Barbershop': A Riff of Nostalgia
		And the barbershop is that community social club where everyday brothers take their seat in an impromptu council of wisdom and posturing.
		The story is that Calvin, (Ice Cube) has been operating the family's barbershop since his father's death and is struggling to keep his the doors open while pursuing other entrepreneurial visions.
		That same strange gap in big funny happens in the barbershop, where Ced's jokes—cleverly marketed to appeal to the voyeurism of Whites (Since when is dogging Rosa Parks funny?)—are relied on too heavily to fill a dramatic space that is, otherwise, just so-so.
	www.seeingblack.com /x092602/barbershop.shtml (508 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: Barbershop (Widescreen Special Edition) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		"Barbershop" was one of those films I slept on when it was released in theatres in 2002 (actually, I slept on a LOT of films in 2002, but that's for another conversation).
		But when he contracts with a local loan shark to sell the barbershop to finance his pie-in-the-sky schemes, Calvin is brought up short by the realization of how much the barbershop means to his employees, his customers and his community.
		Because the local barbershop in a fl neighborhood is an institution, a place where the guys can come in, kick back, trade news and views and feel at home.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006RVJR (751 words)

	BarberShop (2002)
		The film respects itself and its audience and, though it falters at the end, its warm sense of humor lingers and glows.
		He wife, who recognizes the barbershop for the community landmark that it is, skedaddles her husband off to work.
		The barbershop is used as a classroom, lecture hall, community center, and dance hall: It means everything to the souls who dwell within.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=135968&PID=10106224&Tab=reviews&CID=18 (956 words)

	Barbershop : About The Filmmakers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He attended USC film school from 1990 to 1993, honing his filmmaking skills.
		The two independent feature films to his credit are One Of Us Tripped in 1996 (winner of the Black Filmmaker's Hall of Fame Feature Film Festival) and The Firing Squad in 1998.
		The film was executive produced by Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds and released in September 1997.
	www.cinema.com /article/item.phtml?ID=1172 (2603 words)

	Barbershop Fails to Make the Cut
		I was unable to see the film its opening weekend, but when I stopped by my office that Sunday night, a colleague asked if I had seen the film.
		Barbershop wanted to be true to what is discussed in fl barbershops, they could have had a scene with fl people discussing the mayor.
		Barbershop is how Tillman and Tieitel chose to pay homage to Dr. King, homage to that march and homage to the Civil Rights Movement.
	www.diversityinbusiness.com /Arch20209_Film_BarberShop.htm (1592 words)

	U-WIRE.com/FILM REVIEW: 'Barbershop' first surprise of fall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The film opens with the "smash and grab" of an ATM by two unknown thieves.
		The film will return to this subplot throughout the film for additional comic relief, but it will also literally serve as a quasi deus ex machina towards the end.
		In a film that chooses to focus on a single location, it becomes very important that the dialogue be quite strong and retain the audience's interest.
	www.uwire.com /content/topae091602002.html (473 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Video: Barbershop [2002] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Barbershop is a basic plot, basic day script (Meaning 99.9999% of the movie is set within a day) but for a very strange reason, i loved the comedy of the movie!
		Barbershop is a real gem of a film, hopefully not one of those that will get chucked aside as a 'fl' movie, not only for the feel-good story, but for the great performances from the cast.
		The rest of the film is taken up in the barbershop with a colourful set of characters, or with the sub-plot, which sees friends JD (the ever-brilliant Anthony Anderson) and Kevin steal a cash machine.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000BV1KA (691 words)

	September 2002 \| blackfilm.com \| reviews \| film \| barbershop
		The only female element in the mix is Eve, a loving/hostile oxymoron who is in the middle of drama with her dog of a man but seems to love working amidst this male bonding, crap-talking environment.
		Although sufficiently funny, Barbershop does tend to go off on a tangent and get stuck in never land with the extra storyline of two crooks who rob the store across from the shop and end up carting around an ATM machine throughout the day.
		Despite the preachiness, Barbershop is a couple of hours of no-brainer nostalgia and cuteness that could be a relaxing way to spend an afternoon.
	blackfilm.com /20020913/reviews/barbershop.shtml (528 words)

	BBC - Films - interview - Ice Cube
		Anyone who's ever been in a barbershop is going to recognise it.
		A lot of people underestimate what a barbershop means to a community.
		So I thought it would be great to have it in the middle of America rather than make it a New York or an LA thing.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2003/02/21/ice_cube_barbershop_interview.shtml (303 words)

	barbershop rosa parks
		Jesse Jackson is irked by the hit film Barbershop, in which a character played by Cedric the Entertainer complains that Rosa Parks gets too much credit...
		As for Rosa Parks, it may shock you to know she was not the first fl female to refuse to give up her bus seat...
		Barbershop tells a story about realizing what is most important for a...
	people.donden.biz /rosa-parks/barbershop-rosa-parks.html (1163 words)

	BBC - Films - review - Barbershop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the age of photo messaging and web chats, "Barbershop" is a warm-hearted reminder that there's nothing like conversation between real people.
		It's therefore no surprise that the film is all about its characters; the five guys and a gal who snip people's barnets for a living - in between bouts of repartee, arguing, and reconfiguring American racial history.
		Terri (Eve) keeps up the female contingent with tons of attitude, while old-timer Eddie (Cedric the Entertainer) talks about the old days and controversially undermines fl American history - "all Rosa Parks did was sit her fl ass down!" - with wicked humour.
	www0.bbc.co.uk /films/2003/02/14/barbershop_2003_review.shtml (393 words)

	Barbershop (2002): Ice Cube, Anthony Anderson, Sean Patrick Thomas - PopMatters Film Review
		In her first extended film role (that is, more than the few lines she had in XXX), Eve Jihan Jeffers holds her own on screen with some notably charismatic actors, including Ice Cube and Cedric the Entertainer.
		When, at film's beginning, the convenience store across the street is robbed, the local cop (Tom Wright) immediately suspects Ricky, and come by the shop to warn him they have tape of the getaway vehicle, and will be calling on him when they can read the license plate.
		Ricky protests, rightfully, and the film reveals right off that he's not guilty, that the culprits are JD (Anthony Anderson) and Billy (Lahmard Tate).
	popmatters.com /film/reviews/b/barbershop.shtml (1448 words)

	Barbershop: DVD Collector's Set (2002/2004): Ice Cube, Anthony Anderson, Sean Patrick Thomas, Eve - PopMatters Film ...
		The films' thematic focus on "community" is born of their creative process.
		The barbershop's immediate competition is a Nappy Cutz franchise across the street, courtesy of the Porsche-driving developer Quentin Leroux (Harry Lennix).
		As before, the film allots brief moments to assorted interactions: Isaac and Ricky compete, Jimmy and Terri argue, Calvin tries to control the chaos (he goes so far as to prohibit profanity in the shop, for a minute, to create "family" atmosphere).
	popmatters.com /film/reviews/b/barbershop-dvd-collectors-set.shtml (1924 words)

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