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Roxanne Roxanne

2017

Michael Larnell

Chanté Adams, Mahershala Ali, Nia Long, Elvis Nolasco ...

5.4

382

Drama In the early 1980s, the most feared battle MC in Queens, New York, was a fierce teenage girl with the weight of the world on her shoulders. At the age of 14, Lolita "Roxanne Shanté" Gooden was well on her way to becoming a hip-hop legend as she hustled to provide for her family while defending herself from the dangers of the streets of the Queensbridge Projects in NYC.

	Author	Review
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"A skillful and ironically gripping coming-of-age movie: a hip-hop anti-biopic."	POS
United States	Leslie Felperin The Hollywood Reporter	"It’s bravura filmmaking like this that helps to make this work standout as something more than just another biopic of a relatively obscure figure from music history."	POS
United States	Claudia Puig The Wrap	"A powerful true story"	POS
United States	Nick Allen rogerebert.com	"The movie provides a full picture as to how a woman of color could be manipulated by the less-responsible men that have power over her"	POS

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