1. Singleton just may be challenging us to laugh at the film or with it and then feel extremely uneasy for doing so. If so, that's admirable; if not, he's made a very strange soap opera.
2. A meandering, flawed, but electrifying film.
3. The subject is certainly worthy, but Singleton's script is too repetitive, pedantic, and protracted to do it justice.
4. Baby Boy earns credibility for its insights by moving beyond image and rhetoric and quickly establishing Jody, his friends, lovers and family members as complex, striving, fallible human beings.
5. Singleton hammers home his thesis ... with a monotonous single-mindedness that dulls the usual acuity of his perceptions.
6. A bold criticism of young black men who carelessly father babies, live off their mothers and don't even think of looking for work.
7. Baby Boy is more insistent in its didacticism than Boyz N the Hood, the passion and conviction are no less heartfelt.
8. 'Baby Mama Drama' in da Hood.
9. Tells it like it is with just a glimmer of how it ought to be.
10. What holds the movie together ... is Gibson's broodingly responsive performance.

What is a brief summary of the following reviews?
Preachy and repetitive in parts, Baby Boy still manages to exude authenticity, thanks to its competent cast.