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  • Head of State
  • Opened March 28, 2003 | Runtime:1 hr. 35 min.
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  • PG-13
  • Mays Gilliam (Chris Rock) is a Washington D.C. neighborhood alderman, who's about to be red-lined out of his job. But after the untimely death of the party frontrunner, Gilliam is plucked from obscurity and thrust into the limelight as his party's Read More
  • Cast: Chris Rock, Bernie Mac, Dylan Baker, Nick Searcy, Lynn Whitfield
  • Director: Chris Rock
  • Genres: Political Satire, Comedy

Head of State Critic Reviews

Metascore®44 out of 100 | Mixed or average reviews

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

  • 83
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Rock and Mac exult in the kind of highly charged verbal and physical antics...

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    An imperfect movie, but not a boring one and not lacking in intelligence.

  • 63
    ReelViews | James Berardinelli

    The key term here is "fairy tale," because, although the movie occasionally...

  • 60
    Wall Street Journal | Joe Morgenstern

    This is silliness of such a special grade, performed with such zest, that it...

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Avg. Fan Rating:
Average Rating = 3.1 out of 5
Metascore®:
44 out of 100 Mixed or average reviews

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