All Eyez on Me
Lionsgate | Release Date: June 16, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
38
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
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2
Mixed:
11
Negative:
9
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperJun 16, 2017
All Eyez On Me is enthralling, exhilarating and at times maddening. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreJun 16, 2017
Overlong, more solid than inspiring, it makes a good go of illustrating just how much fame, music and controversy the man squeezed into 25 short years. Read full review
60
Total FilmKevin HarleyAug 11, 2017
Shipp Jr. thrills, but a busy script blurs too many nuances. Read full review
60
VarietyOwen GleibermanJun 15, 2017
Comprehensive but sketchy, richly atmospheric but often under-dramatized, it is not, in the end, a very good movie.... Yet it’s highly worth seeing, because in its volatility and hunger, and the desperation of its violence, it captures something about the space in which Tupac Shakur lived. Read full review
58
IndieWireKate ErblandJun 15, 2017
Boom’s film (penned by Jeremy Haft, Eddie Gonzalez, and Steven Bagatourian) initially reads as a timely rallying cry around Shakur’s legacy, before devolving into a paint-by-the-numbers biopic that unspools with as much energy as a Wikipedia entry. Read full review
50
Rolling StoneDavid FearJun 16, 2017
Was this eventual big-screen take on Shakur going to be an epic look at a complicated legend's life and times – a Gandhi of gangsta rap iconography – or merely a slightly larger Lifetime TV movie filled with hysterics and greatest-hits moments. We now have an answer. It was not the one we wanted. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneKatie WalshJun 16, 2017
Shipp nails the energetic, motor-mouthed cadence of the outspoken Shakur. But the film surrounding Shipp is rough going. Read full review
50
Screen DailyWendy IdeJun 15, 2017
While there is a propulsive energy to some of the film, there is also a sense that a lot of territory is being covered. And not all of it – a nit-picking examination of Tupac’s contractual woes for example – is as dramatically compelling as the central arc of Tupac’s bright-burning stellar rise and fall. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubClayton PurdomJun 16, 2017
At this most perfunctory level, All Eyez On Me succeeds, but on pretty much every other one imaginable, it is a failure. Read full review
42
Paste MagazineTim GriersonJun 15, 2017
All Eyez on Me risks little, and as a result it’s not worthy of his complicated legacy. Read full review
40
Time Out LondonTom HuddlestonJun 28, 2017
The filmmaking is solid, the performances strong and the tunes are pretty terrific. But this is too wary of controversy – and too ‘respectful’ of the fans – to treat its subject to the hard-headed analysis Tupac’s legacy deserves. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenJun 21, 2017
The artist’s intellectual and political foundations are demonstrated along with his “Thug Life” credo and lifestyle, but the result is a dualistic, rather than truly complex, portrait of the man. Read full review
40
Village VoiceMarcos CabreraJun 20, 2017
Simply put, Shipp Jr. fails to capture Pac’s multiplicity, much less portray the depth of his talent. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineSteve MacfarlaneJun 16, 2017
The tension between verisimilitude and economy of storytelling dictates everything in All Eyez on Me. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzJun 15, 2017
A cheap, lazy exercise in myth-making. The goods, as it were, will have to be found elsewhere. Read full review
33
The PlaylistKyle KohnerMay 12, 2018
Tupac’s legacy deserved a better story, and hopefully, one day he will be rewarded with one. Read full review
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)Emily YoshidaJun 18, 2017
All Eyez on Me is rarely more than a faithful adaptation of the rapper’s Wikipedia entry, so fixated on name-checking every footnote of Shakur’s public life that there is no space to explore the experience of the man himself. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonJun 15, 2017
Given the tragic and highly charged events it depicts, All Eyez on Me is oddly low on emotional bite, perhaps because it never feels real. As clean and polished and blandly overlit as a TV soap opera, Boom’s film looks and feels smaller than Tupac’s cinematic life story. Read full review
25
ConsequenceDominick Suzanne-MayerJun 18, 2017
All Eyez on Me is the opposite of an ideal biopic. Read full review
25
TheWrapRobert AbeleJun 15, 2017
The dramatized movie we’ve gotten, All Eyez On Me, is a hagiographic dud that unfolds like a depth-free magazine listicle. Read full review
20
The New York TimesGlenn KennyJun 15, 2017
All Eyez on Me, a fictionalized film biography of Shakur, directed by Benny Boom and starring Demetrius Shipp Jr., is not only a clumsy and often bland account of his life and work, but it also gives little genuine insight into his thought, talent or personality. Read full review
12
RogerEbert.comNick AllenJun 16, 2017
All Eyez on Me is one of the most useless music biopics ever made — it’ll be too confusing for newcomers and too underwhelming for those familiar with the work and the life of rap prophet Tupac Shakur. Read full review
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