| HBO | Season Premiere Date: July 9, 2017 |
Summary:
Featuring interviews and footage from recording session with such artists as Bono, Eminem, Ice Cube, Kendrick Lamar, N.W.A, Stevie Nicks, Trent Reznor, Snoop Dogg, Bruce Springsteen, and Gwen Stefani, the four-part Allen Hughes documentary chronicles how Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine became leaders of their own music empires and business partners.
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Movie/Mini-Series, Documentary, Music
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IndieWire
Jul 6, 2017
Jul 7, 2017
The last part of the documentary is a bit like an ad for Beats Music and Apple--and everything wonderful to come from these two men. “Apple is music,” says Iovine. But it’s the earlier hours that make The Defiant Ones a must watch for anyone invested in the history of hip-hop or modern pop.
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Jul 6, 2017
The film, more than four hours long end-to-end, is the kind of solid but friendly documentary all celebrities dream of having made about them, awash in jaw-dropping sweeps of Malibu beach houses, visits to luxe mansion interiors and private-jet cabins, supplemented by drone’s-eye views of yachts and estates and perfect lighting everywhere Iovine and Dre go. Despite its fixation on provocative and at times harrowing (and even criminal) travails, The Defiant Ones never stops basking in the permaglow of their success.
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Jul 18, 2017
RogerEbert.com
Jul 7, 2017
The Defiant Ones stumbles most in the final half-hour, which often feels like a commercial for Beats headphones, the latest mega-success for Iovine and Dre. Although, by that point, I didn’t really care because I had heard so many interesting stories over the previous three-and-a-half episodes. Most of all, I was allowed insight into two men who lived up to the adjective in the title of this show.
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Jul 7, 2017
Jul 6, 2017
It's an instructive deep dive, sure, but one that too often veers into hagiography. [7 Jul 2017, p.53]
Jul 10, 2017
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