While making a priority of squeezing in every usable bit of celebrity face-time, Mansome passes by potentially interesting digressions without more than a wayward glance. full review
An amusing if slight look at the grooming, preening and stylistic ways of the 21st century man. full review
It's more first-person journal and travelogue than it is cultural archaeology, and as such it's basically OK. full review
You get a feeling of haste from this film, as if Spurlock...is onto something, but maybe doesn't have the time or patience to stick with it to widen his approach and find sharper people to sharpen his material. full review
There's no real center to the film's potentially insightful topic, with Spurlock never zeroing in on a cohesive message. full review
As documentaries go, this is lip gloss. full review
The movie purports to be a lighthearted look at changing notions of masculinity and appearance. But unless you find something intrinsically hilarious about a man getting a pedicure, laughs are scarce. full review
The best thing about the movie is that it keeps drawing conclusions in opposite directions. full review
Mansome's crowning achievement is its title. full review
It feels like a bunch of television segments slapped together, with sparing use of Mr. Spurlock himself. full review
It's a movie so late in noticing a shift in American male grooming that for a documentary on the subject to work, Spurlock would either have to pitch it to our grandparents (or be a grandparent) or trace the arc of the shift and unpack it. full review
A skin-deep look at the state of contemporary masculinity. full review
This complete waste of 82 minutes finds documentarian Morgan Spurlock taking a look at current trends in men's grooming, featuring interviews with a random sampling of people who have no idea what they're talking about - but they're famous. full review