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11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90The New YorkerPauline KaelThe New YorkerPauline KaelHal Ashby has the deftness to keep us conscious of the whirring pleasures of the carnal-farce structure and yet to give it free play. This was the most virtuoso example of sophisticated, kaleidoscopic face that American moviemakers had yet come up with; frivolous and funny, it carries a sense of heedless activity, of a craze of dissatisfaction.
- 83Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumThere’s a self-awareness to Shampoo that gives the movie a cleansing sadness and, oddly, makes Beatty an affectingly amoral roue.
- 80Time OutTime OutMade with all the awareness of hindsight, Shampoo offers a sharp sexual satire and a mature statement on both America and Hollywood in 1968.
- 75TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineBeatty mercilessly lampoons his own offscreen image in a bumptious comedy of manners that turns persuasively sombre at the end.
- 75San Francisco ExaminerWesley MorrisSan Francisco ExaminerWesley MorrisShampoo refuses to be coy. There's a deep, soulful confusion here that isn't careless with frivolity.
- 63Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe movie didn't quite work for me. Its timing wasn't confident enough to pull off its ambitious conception.
- 60Chicago ReaderDave KehrChicago ReaderDave KehrSlick and often funny, but the smugness of the satire and the stunted emotions are finally wearying.
- In Shampoo Ashby shows that he has a good memory for a couple of decades of cinematic clichés. He gives us an unnecessary motor race and some obligatory slow motion, but he misses most of the opportunities offered him.
- 50Village VoiceAndrew SarrisVillage VoiceAndrew SarrisThe parts are better than the whole. [24 Feb 1975, p.58]