Baghead Critic Reviews

The movie's cheap, it's clever - it's even a little scary in places.Read the full review

If you walk out after 10 or 15 minutes, you will have seen the best parts of the film.Read the full review

The filmmakers maintain a delicate balance that generates tension on multiple levels, including sexual. They giddily mix genres, but Baghead, part meta-cinematic comedy, part relationship drama and part horror movie, remains rooted in reality.Read the full review

The acting is a big part of Baghead's problem. Three of the four protagonists are played by performers who do little to distinguish themselves.Read the full review

An amusing bauble.Read the full review

They've made a movie about trickery that neatly tricks its viewers into laughing, then screaming, then laughing again.Read the full review

The semi-improvised performances, which seem so natural that it is tempting to confuse the actors with their characters, bring Baghead into the realm of group therapy observed through one-way glass.Read the full review

Much of the fun of Baghead is that it's unclassifiable, by turns a movie-movie lark, an Eric Rohmer-like relationship comedy, and a surprisingly effective "Friday The 13th" kids-in-the-woods slasher film.Read the full review

Though its scares are scarce, Baghead provides what nine out of 10 dead-teenagers movies lack: specifically, a realistic sense of character that gives moviegoers a reason to identify with the would-be victims.Read the full review