GhettoPhysics: Will the Real Pimps and Hos Please Stand Up! (2010)

Critic Reviews

• Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

  The film's notion that an understanding that life on the street works much like it does in the corridors of the highest levels of politics, government, religion and the military has much merit, but GhettoPhysics undercuts its approach...

• Dennis Harvey, Variety

  The concept -- that everyone and everything is either exploiting or being exploited -- gets old fast, and never loses its cheap misogynist edge.

• Tom Long, Detroit News

  It's all low budget and inventive, and mildly impressive if far too repetitive and ultimately fuzzy.

• Stephanie Merry, Washington Post

  Unfortunately, the interviews are interspersed with a drama that clutters the message more than illuminates it.

• Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

  A radically ingenious, in-your-face documentary hybrid that takes the basic street relationship between pimps and hookers and holds it up on a global scale.

• Sheri Linden, Hollywood Reporter

  What saves it from starry-eyed fuzziness and grounds it in sociopolitical reality is Brown's clear-sighted anger and the astute perceptions of talking heads including Cornel West, Ice-T and Norman Lear.

• Fr. Chris Carpenter, Movie Dearest

  Smart if sometimes overbearing...provides considerable food for thought.

• Corey Hall, Metro Times (Detroit, MI)

  The argument: All human power dynamics come down to the basic street hustle

• Karina Longworth, L.A. Weekly

  It's basically the stuff of a Bill Maher monologue, knocked down a few reading levels and spun into a low-budg gonzo smorgasbord of brashly tacky styles. Bleep became a cult hit, and so could this -- of the WTF?-camp variety.

• Prairie Miller, NewsBlaze

  Hold on E. Raymond, since I'm the movie critic here, I get to be the pimp. So let me chime in before things get too out of hand. Showing up in a film to peddle your condescending sales pitch may be a tad insulting and simply dumbing down the demographic

• Tim Cogshell, Boxoffice Magazine

  If this film is nothing else (and it may be nothing else) it's funny and (ironically) fundamentally true.

• Nick Schager, Slant Magazine

  A film aimed squarely at making you stupider.

• Kam Williams, TheLoop21.com

  Are you a pimp or a ho? You're either one or the other according to E. Raymond Brown.

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