Whiteboyz
Fox Searchlight Pictures | Release Date: October 8, 1999 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
45
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
6
Negative:
1
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70
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Hoch's very funny satire on racial stereotyping cuts both ways. Read full review
70
The New York TimesAnita Gates
Deceptively silly, ultimately intelligent. Read full review
50
New York PostJonathan Foreman
Without a real story to go with the notion of Farm Belt "wiggas," the humor wears thinner and thinner until it disappears. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Dopey, not dope. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsRobert Dominguez
Despite its good intentions, Whiteboys -- a serio-comic examination of hip-hop's influence on suburban white youth -- comes off as little more than a fleshed-out skit. Read full review
40
Village VoiceJessica Winter
Not a movie that can afford to take itself seriously. Read full review
40
L.A. WeeklyPaul Cullum
Can never quite decide whether it's after the humor implicit in what seems conceived as satire, or the agitprop frissons of race and class theory. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesGene Seymour
Documents accurately the capacity of pop culture to make mongrels of its consumers. But it doesn't quite know (or want to know) what to make of it. Read full review
30
VarietyLisa Nesselson
Too many scenes play like actors acting rather than life being lived as pic lurches around with ragged variations in tone. Read full review
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