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