Deborah Ross

Hair brained

Good Hair<br /> 12A, Key Cities Get Him to the Greek<br /> 15, Nationwide

issue 26 June 2010

Good Hair
12A, Key Cities

Get Him to the Greek
15, Nationwide

When Chris Rock’s four-year-old daughter Lola came up to him crying and asked, ‘Daddy, why don’t I have good hair?’, he did not do what I would have done, which would have been to send her to bed without supper. Honestly, don’t today’s parents have enough to do without answering awkward questions? (For more child-neglecting tips, please see my Big Book of Child-Neglecting Tips, which is the definitive work of its kind.) Instead, Mr Rock, the American black comedian, lets us all down by thinking seriously about Lola’s question, and making this documentary as a kind of reply and, although it pains me to say it, it is a charming film: sprightly, droll, inquisitive and warmly sardonic. This may even be the best film about any type of hair I have seen in a long while and also the most informative.

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