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Metascore
22 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzRogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzPart rap musical, part social satire, with elements of Westerns and kung fu pictures, Bodied is one of the funniest, freest movies of the year.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerThe Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerIf the movie runs long in places, the vibrant performances from Worthy and the rest of the cast help push things ahead to the grand finale, and there are enough dynamo battles from start to finish to keep hungry rap fans satisfied.
- 80VarietyAndrew BarkerVarietyAndrew BarkerPummeling, overlong, and at times a bit too proud of its own provocations, Bodied is nonetheless a feverishly entertaining spectacle, and Kahn’s willingness to put every liberal piety on the Summer Jam screen proves intoxicating.
- 78Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovSo yes, Bodied is a comedy of ill manners, fraught as it is with a veritable encyclopedia of contemporaneous qualms confronted and contested with some seriously dope hustle and flow. Tag this one #badassseriousfun.
- 75The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyThe A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyIt’s so thickly packed with technical and verbal dazzle that whatever biting point it might have had to make ends up completely lost.
- 75The Film StageEthan VestbyThe Film StageEthan VestbyKahn’s film taken on its own terms doesn’t seem to be striving for anything beyond an in-the-moment provocation, even if it has the occasional insight.
- 75The PlaylistJordan RuimyThe PlaylistJordan RuimyTopics such as race, poverty, masculinity and politics are tackled in thought-provoking ways. It all makes for an entertaining, if not slight, ride that proves Kahn has the chops to graduate into feature films and maybe has a genre classic in him just screaming to get out.
- 75Slant MagazineJake ColeSlant MagazineJake ColeThe anti-P.C. scorn that establishes a white boy's nervous entry into rap gradually becomes a sincere, if hilarious, treatise on the impossibility of reducing art to value judgments.
- 67ConsequenceDominick Suzanne-MayerConsequenceDominick Suzanne-MayerIt’s a provocation, and for the most part, it’s an effective one. Yet for a film all about verbal and physical blows, Bodied seems to grow skittish when it comes to landing the nastiest ones, the ones that would call its own ideals into question. It’s just insightful enough to leave audiences wishing that it were more so.