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Blue Story

2019

Andrew Onwubolu

Stephen Odubola, Micheal Ward, Khali Best, Karla-Simone Spence ...

5.8

799

Drama Feature adaptation of Rapman's YouTube series about two young friends who become rivals in a street war.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"An intriguing proposition: all that energy and raw talent poured into a highly conventional story (...) There’s something about Blue Story which is infectious"	POS
United Kingdom	Kevin Maher The Times	"[An] explosive debut (...) [Onwubolu] invigorates the material with an authentic sense of place and a formal conceit that involves Onwubolu, as Rapman, wandering into frame and launching into hefty wedges of exposition rap (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Mike McCahill The Guardian	"Onwubolu avoids the usual flash and posturing in favour of a careful, rooted storytelling, finding subtly different perspectives on gang life (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"In its elegant grit and volatile vibe, 'Blue Story' recalls the powerful inner-city tales that dotted the American film landscape of the early ’90s"	POS
United States	Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"While the rough-hewn filmmaking occasionally reveals Rapman's lack of experience working with a larger cinematic canvas, 'Blue Story' boasts an immediacy and energy that perfectly suit the material."	POS
United States	Ben Kenigsberg The New York Times	"It has a powerful sense of place, with details that feel authentic and, in some cases, lived through. Yet Rapman’s civic-minded lyrics (...) have a habit of reducing the drama to tidy morals."	POS
United Kingdom	Amon Warmann Empire	"Los interludios musicales en los que Rapman narra partes de la trama son refrescantes, pero el tema es demasiado común para que la película se distinga de otras similares (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Greer McNally Time Out	"What makes 'Blue Story' feel genuinely fresh as an urban drama (...) is Rapman’s own intermittent presence as a kind of one-man rapping Greek chorus (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Ireland	Tara Brady Irish Times	"[Onwubolu] makes a sensational directorial debut with this moving, urgent, energetic drama (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Charlotte O'Sullivan London Evening Standard	"[It will] change hearts and minds (...) Funny, authentic and entertaining"	POS
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"'Blue Story' always feels like it's in motion, even when the characters are just spitting slang back and forth (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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