It is an ingenuity that could have been repulsively silly, but the card is signed with a firm hand, and winged rubric by the notable Czech, exiled director, Milos Foreman. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Jan 25, 2024

…a showcase for the charisma of a young cast and specifically Treat Williams, whose uproarious performance of I Got Life, accompanied by a plate-smashing revolt at a posh dinner party, captures the rebellious spirit of the sixties with elan…

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 13, 2023

Visually and musically at least, Hair is done beautifully, faithful to its roots.

Full Review | May 18, 2022

The surprising added ingredient is art, a particularly cinematic and choreographic artistry that gives the film the simplicity and strength of a story ballet.

Full Review | Nov 9, 2021

Forman's film is much more than a curiosity showing that extravagant risks can pay off. It is, first and foremost, a great screen musical comedy.

Full Review | Nov 9, 2021

Director Milos Forman and his production team have performed an artistic task akin to carefully restoring a chandelier... It is new -- but it is not.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 9, 2021

Although some of the music retains its pulsating vitality and the informal ballet is resourcefully executed, the ideas are passé.

Full Review | Nov 9, 2021

Hair has, in the main, such a liberating euphoria that you feel ten years younger instead of just wishing you were.

Full Review | Nov 9, 2021

Hair is ill-judged nonsense, full of indulged whims and unchallenged whimsy. The music is still attractive, despite the newly ironed-out disco arrangements, but is it possible we once thought the lyrics witty?

Full Review | Nov 8, 2021

The fact of the matter is that the under-25s who form the main part of most audiences nowadays are receiving it as a blinding revelation. Unfortunately it's stale cheese to me, and I'm writing this review.

Full Review | Nov 8, 2021

In its best moments, Forman's film has a surrealistic, dreamlike quality that seems the perfect format for some splendid dance numbers and Ragni and Rado's best songs.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 8, 2021

It's a movie musical, and it is very much like the original show: when it is good, it is very, very good; when it is bad, it is horrid.

Full Review | Nov 8, 2021

Hair is a joyous celebration of the liberating 1960s, a rare flight of creative imagination that widens the dimensions of the movie musical.

Full Review | Nov 8, 2021

With its cast of young, unknown stars-to-be, and its bright, unusual choreography by Twyla Tharp, the film violates most of what we know about musicals on screen, packing an emotional wallop that uncannily penetrates the essence of the era it depicts.

Full Review | Nov 8, 2021

No matter how you look at it, Hair is dated, and the efforts by Forman to turn it into a '60s' fable -- a fondly remembered period piece -- is only moderately effective.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 8, 2021

Hair is so full of love, bright dancing, and marvelous music that it's a shame you can't put it in your pocket and take it home with you.

Full Review | Nov 8, 2021

Director Milos Forman's film is too electrifyingly alive to be quaint. It re-creates the most famous musical of the '60s in terms that are valid for today and any other day.

Full Review | Nov 8, 2021

The cast is a tiny powerhouse, with Savage oozing sensitivity, Williams stealing the show, D'Angelo as affecting as ever, and Cheryl Barnes stopping the show with her powerful solo of "Easy to Be Hard."

Full Review | Nov 8, 2021

Forman, a Czech with a quite uncanny eye for the way things are -- and in this case were -- in America, has fashioned an astonishing movie from meagre and distinctly unpromising ingredients.

Full Review | Nov 8, 2021

It is not meant to be meaningful -- that was the pretense of the stage play. The screen version is meant only to be fun: funny and gentle and astonishing, a fantasy amalgam of exhilarating music, exciting dance, and impossible story.

Full Review | Nov 8, 2021