Good Hair (2009)

Chris Rock tries his hand at being a documentarian in this rambling and scatterbrained series of interviews revolving around standards of beauty for black women in America.

In Good Hair the usually sharp Rock seems to excel at avoiding being informative or opinionated regarding the information he presents, while surprisingly barely managing to pull off any of his usual bitingly critical punchlines. The result is a mostly pointless trifle of a documentary that asks many questions regarding the current state and future of self-image and black American women. Disappointingly, not only is little coherent effort made to answer these questions, but the overall tone of the film seems to trivialize their importance from the start.

Overall, not worth the time spent watching.