Barbershop: The Next Cut

It's hard to set a gentle comedy like Tim Story's 2002 hit Barbershop in today's South Side Chicago. With the troublingly high murder rate, it's no wonder director Malcolm D. Lee (The Best Man) and writers Kenya Barris (black-ish) and Tracy Oliver (Survivor's Remorse) have chosen to include it as part of the story in the latest sequel. For the most part, Lee and company still manage to coax solid laughs and to give the grim facts the gravity they deserve.

While Calvin (Ice Cube) is certainly proud of his South Side roots, he's beginning to wonder if maintaining his family business in its original location is such a great idea.