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Check Your Racism at the Door When ‘A White Man Walks into a Barbershop’ (Movie Review)

Mike Szymanski
6 min readMay 15, 2023

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A White Man Walks into a Barbershop

Rating: 9/10

Director and Writer: Kyle Schickner

Style: Documentary

Time: 90 minutes

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLTJt7JL4Fo

Kyle Schickner serves as an Everyman who delves into racism at barbershops across the country

Review by Mike Szymanski

This is perhaps one of the most important, timely and provocative documentaries out right now — and for good reason. It’s about racism, it’s about division, it’s about finding common ground.

It will trigger people, start arguments, create debates and teach people something they didn’t know anything about, but thought they knew everything about.

It’s about stuff that we have seen and know about and have heard about, but it’s told in a fascinating, unique, funny and informative way.

Director Kyle Schickner strikes out across the United States taking on the story of racism while walking into black-run barbershops. He comes across as a bombastic, schlubby and woke liberal white guy. (That’s not fair, Kyle is…

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Mike Szymanski
Mike Szymanski

Written by Mike Szymanski

Journalist, writer, activist and bisexual, living with Multiple Sclerosis and Dachshunds in Hollywood.

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