Baby Boy

It would have been enough that Singleton raise these difficult questions without trying to wrap them up, too, in the last five minutes. Full Review

Jody's story is told with so much heart -- and his character is acted with such a winning combination of playfulness, vulnerability and sexual dynamism by Mr. Gibson -- that you can forgive the occasionally incoherent storytelling, the overwrought moments and the haphazard, unconvincing excursions into dream and fantasy. Full Review

Rambling and conflicted as it is, it's one of the most entertaining African-American comedies of manners ever made. Full Review

The movie makes an over-long deal about Jody's immaturity and never seems to get beyond it. Full Review

At once too neat and too messy, but films like this are too rare to leave it at that. Ragged but ambitious, it retains a core of genuine emotion -- this picture is doing the best it can, and although that may not be everything, it ought to count for something. Full Review