Fresh
There's a self-awareness to Shampoo that gives the movie a cleansing sadness and, oddly, makes Beatty an affectingly amoral roue.
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
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Shampoo
Overview
On Election Day, 1968, irresponsible hairdresser and ladies' man George Roundy is too busy cutting hair and dealing with his girlfriends and mistress Felicia Karpf, whose husband Lester is having an affair with his ex-girlfriend Jackie.
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75%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Shampoo, made in 1975 but set in 1968, the night before Richard Nixon's election to the presidency, was directed by Hal Ashby and written by Robert Towne and Warren Beatty, who may have produced one of the best scripts in the last three decades.
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
All the excellent creative components do not add up to a whole.
Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten
Disappointment comes in all weights and flavors, but the brand that's generated by Hal Ashby's Shampoo is a bit harder to swallow than some.
Nora Sayre, New York Times
Rotten
Shampoo never quite connects its images of national mediocrity and personal self-deception.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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