Boyz N The Hood
Whats is life for this kids who are raised from the slum of Los Angeles as they try to learn a life beyond the ghetto.
9 August 1980, California, USA
28 January 1962, Houston, Texas, USA
1 January 1969, Cerritos, California, USA
24 December 1979, Los Angeles, California, USA
16 August 1958, New York City, New York, USA
8 February 1963, Los Angeles, California, USA
31 October 1947, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
4 August 1968, Illinois, USA
January 10, 2017
The dialogue is hilarious, loaded, questioning.October 27, 2016
Boyz N the Hood is a passionate drama shot with fluency and style, a study of what amounts to life during wartime, with people grimly used to gunfire and helicopters thudding overhead.August 01, 2016
Singleton sometimes displays his youthful inexperience in melodramatic emphasis and rhetorical flourishes, but he has created a deeply troubling film about responsibility.September 27, 2016
Powerful, old-school look at life surrounded by violence.August 18, 2008
The violence in Boyz N the Hood is neither gratuitous nor melodramatic; its aftermath is shattering. Singleton's powerhouse movie has the impact of a stun gun.August 01, 2016
Like a jazz ensemble, Singleton and his actors slowly involve us in an almost sensual melange of moods, images and situations that take us inside the ghetto in a way mainstream films almost never do.March 17, 2008
An absorbing, smartly made dramatic encyclopedia of problems and ethics in the black community, 1991.August 25, 2008
Even in its warmest moments, there is a fearful chill in this hood's air. And on the hearts of its boyz.October 28, 2016
It seems as box-fresh as a pair of white high-tops and as powerful and funny today as it was in 1991.August 01, 2016
It's always risky to proclaim a new force in film based upon just one film, but Boyz N the Hood is good enough to suggest that John Singleton is going to be a major player for a long time.October 26, 2016
It feels like it should be cheesy and manipulative, but the utter sincerity lifts it immeasurable.