Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads
NR, 60 min.
Directed by Spike Lee, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Monty Ross, Donna Bailey, Stuart Smith, Tommy Redmond Hicks.

Spike Lee’s Student Academy Award-winning thesis film from NYU is a focused and entertaining story about black urban life. The film uses the barbershop as as the gathering place for the film’s action, which consists of jocular conversation and dreams of big scores. Along the way, there’s murder and suspense and we also get a preview of the exciting Spike Lee storytelling that was still to come.

This article appears in April 21 • 2000.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.