American Pimp Critic Reviews
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Supple and engrossing, a liquid-smooth street-rap testimonial.Read the full review
What we are left with is a mildly entertaining "man on the street" gloss, seasoned with fragments from blaxploitation movies and music by Isaac Hayes, Marvin Gaye and others.Read the full review
American Pimp, if not quite a self-serving orgy of self-justification, can hardly be thought of as a searching look at the skin trade.Read the full review
The dehumanizing aspect of pimping is what's scariest about the Hughes brothers' investigation--so powerful the filmmakers realize they need only to record it.Read the full review
Lushly entertaining, and its subjects are terrific storytellers with style to burn.Read the full review