| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
B- |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris |
"Built around a relaxed but vibrant performance by the rapper and first-time actor Jamal Woolard..." more... |
B- |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"...a good film in many ways..." more... |
A- |
Chicago Tribune
Matt Pais |
"B.I.G. personalities, complicated legacies make this music biopic surprisingly G.O.O.D." more... |
B |
E! Online
Matt Stevens |
"...this rapper flick is for real." more... |
B- |
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman |
"...a luridly unapologetic trip through the violence, hunger, verbal bravado, and money fever of the hip-hop world..." more... |
B+ |
filmcritic.com
Chris Cabin |
"...profoundly inept..." more... |
D+ |
Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt |
"Complex and involving biopic about the Notorious B.I.G. that never quite gives the full picture of its enigmatic central figure." more... |
B |
New York Post
Kyle Smith |
"...gives a heartfelt yet clear-eyed sendoff to the late Brooklyn rapper Christopher Wallace..." more... |
B |
New York Times
A.O. Scott |
"...a messy, lively melodrama, reasonably faithful to the facts of Biggie’s life and wholeheartedly devoted to burnishing his myth." more... |
C+ |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
"...this 'authorized' movie biography makes you long for the 'explicit' version..." more... |
B- |
San Francisco Chronicle
Justin Berton |
"...fawning..." more... |
C |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Travis Nichols |
"...a lame hodgepodge..." more... |
C |
USA Today
Claudia Puig |
"It looks good, and facets of it shine, but behind the gilded facade there's not much there." more... |
B- |
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