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Miles Ahead

2015

Don Cheadle

Don Cheadle, Ewan McGregor, Michael Stuhlbarg, Emayatzy Corinealdi ...

5.8

1,843

Drama An exploration of the life and music of legend jazz musician Miles Davis.

	Author	Review
United States	Nick Schager Variety	"A wild, and wildly uneven, free-form investigation of Davis’ turbulent personal and professional life that’s bolstered by an outsized lead performance"	POS
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"It's freeform riffs on highs and lows from the musician's life are a fine example of structure emulating the ever-evolving style of an artist defined by his unrelenting experimentation"	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Erratic, unpredictable and constantly intriguing, 'Miles Ahead' plays more like one of Davis' compositions than a traditional biopic (...) an intermittently enjoyable and wacky farce"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Like 'Born To Be Blue', 'Miles Ahead' is allergic to all things biopic (...) It's a near miss, but you can't help applauding the passion behind it (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Jordan Hoffman The Guardian	"Cheadle’s got the cred, and the period evocation is tremendous. It’s just that I’m not sure he has all that much to say (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	NEU
United States	Rodrigo Perez The Playlist	"'Miles Ahead' is well-intentioned and ambitious, but ultimately uneven, as it cannot redefine the structures its so desperately wants to break down"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"Purists may howl, but they'll also miss the pleasure and point of this playfully impressionistic movie."	POS
United States	Lou Lumenick New York Post	"Don Cheadle gives one of the best performances of his career as jazz legend Miles Davis in Miles Ahead, even if his debut as a director ends up being an unfocused disappointment (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"The sophistication gap between the character Cheadle has created and the film that contains him is so great it begins to feel like you're watching two different stories that have been unaccountably spliced together"	NEU

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