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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    What's fascinating is the way Mario, working from his father's autobiography and his own memories, has somehow used his first-hand experience without being cornered by it. Read full review

  • 91
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    The beauty of Baadasssss! is the way Mario Van Peebles salutes his father's truth by coaxing it into legend. Read full review

  • 80
    Washington Post | Ann Hornaday

    Does a terrific job of capturing the outlaw energy of the original production. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    Baadasssss! is the portrait of a visionary with a blind spot, a man starved for kindness who can no longer recognize the responsibility to be kind, even to his kids. But it's a portrait of a visionary nonetheless. Read full review

  • 75
    USA Today | Mike Clark

    This movie is more wistful and winking, though it's obvious Mario is still working out emotional baggage with his tyrannically driven old man. Read full review

  • 75
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    The film is technically raw, but the sight of Van Peebles playing his father at a defining moment in movie history exerts a potent fascination. Read full review

  • 70
    The Hollywood Reporter |

    One of the best looks at a period in American film to be seen in a long, long while. BaadAsssss Cinema has meat on its bones and analysis in its soul. Read full review

  • 70
    The New York Times | Dave Kehr

    Mario Van Peebles, of course, inhabits a very different world from that of his father: a world that his father, in some small way, helped to create. It is his awareness of this paradox, of the progressive import of his father's film and of the repressive import of his father's personality, that informs this modest but interesting work. Read full review

  • 70
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Thomas

    In its spirit and execution, Baadasssss! lives up to its forebear. Read full review

  • 30
    Washington Post | Michael O'Sullivan

    While the younger Van Peebles certainly looks the part, Baadasssss! never feels like anything more than kids playing dress-up. Read full review

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