Baby Boy Reviews

Baby Boy Review
by Steve Rhodes (Rating: 2.5/4)
"Why are you so afraid to leave the nest?" Jody's mother (A.J. Johnson) asks him. After all, he's a grown man with two families, having had babies out of wedlock with two different women, but Jody (Tyrese Gibson) stays at home with his mother. He...more

Baby Boy Review
by Rose 'Bams' Cooper
BABY BOY (2001) Rated R; running time 126 minutes Genre: Drama Seen at: Jack Lokes' Celebration Cinema (Lansing, Michigan) Official site: http://www.spe.sony.com/movies/babyboy/ IMDB site: http://us.imdb.com/Details?0255819 Written by: John...more

Baby Boy Review
by Harvey S. Karten
Reviewed by Harvey Karten Columbia Pictures Director: John Singleton Writer: John Singleton Cast: Tyrese Gibson, Adrienne-Joi Johnson Ving Rhames, Taraji P. Henson, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Tamara LaSeon Bass, Omar Gooding more

Baby Boy Review
by Dustin Putman
Directed by John Singleton. Cast: Tyrese Gibson, A.J. Johnson, Taraji P. Henson, Ving Rhames, Omar Gooding, Snoop Dogg, Tamara LaSeon Bass. 2001 - 128 minutes Rated R (for sex, nudity, violence, and profanity). Reviewed by Dustin Putman, June 27, 2001. more

Baby Boy Review
by SSG Syndicate
Susan Granger's review of "BABY BOY" (Columbia Pictures) In previous films like "Boyz N the Hood," writer/director John Singleton has focused on understanding troubled black men trapped in South Central L.A. but in this new film he is...more

Baby Boy Review
by JoBlo
PLOT: A big-time momma's boy can't seem to leave his mother's crib and make good on the babies that he himself has produced in the world. He visits his kids (and their mommas) every now and then, but his main goal in life is...well, he doesn't have...more

Baby Boy Review
by Robin Clifford
In 1991, 23-year old director John Singleton exploded on the movie scene with his insightful and unflinching look into the impact of violence on an inner city black family in "Boyz N the Hood, becoming the youngest helmer, ever, to receive an Oscar...more

Baby Boy Review
by Laura Clifford
Jody (Tyrese Gibson) is a 20-year-old African-American who has fathered two children by two different women, yet still lives at the South Central home of his 36-year-old mother Juanita (A.J. Johnson, "The Inkwell"). Juanita is embarking on a new...more

Baby Boy Review
by Jon Popick
Since the turn of the century, there have been seven major motion pictures released on Wednesdays that didn't precede holiday weekends. Five of those seven were films targeted to urban audiences, most of them were big bags of crap (Next Friday, 3...more

Baby Boy Review
by Annette Cardwell
Ten years after releasing the groundbreaking Boyz N the Hood, writer-director John Singleton revisits his "young black man in the ghetto struggling against a violent end" cautionary tale, but with more humor and realism, in his newest film Baby Boy,...more

Baby Boy Review
by Michael Dequina
Given the fact that _Baby_Boy_ marks writer-director John Singleton's cinematic return to the 'hood of South Central Los Angeles a full decade after his acclaimed debut _Boyz_N_the_Hood_, it makes sense for Columbia Pictures to play up the...more