- Network: HBO
- Series Premiere Date: May 16, 2015
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 20 Ratings
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Positive: 11 out of 20
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Mixed: 2 out of 20
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Negative: 7 out of 20
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May 17, 2015Awesome performances by the entire cast! Would have liked for the ending to at least, elude to the tragic accident surrounding her death or a prologue describing the performers she influenced.
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Out of all of this, including the aforementioned excesses--which are, it should be said, carried off with style--there emerges a brawling, crowded and unfailingly compelling film.
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One of the greatest blues singers of all time, Smith may simply be too big for the movie to contain. Luckily, Latifah’s towering portrayal gives her the magnetic and indelible portrait she deserves.
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It does bear the compromises and conventions that routinely afflict biographical dramas.... But it's no worse in this respect than most such films and better than many — rarely cornball and, indeed, conceivably less melodramatic than the life it portrays. And it's always well played.