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Spinning Gold

2022

Timothy Scott Bogart

Jeremy Jordan, Michelle Monaghan, Jason Isaacs, Peyton List ...

5.4

Drama A biopic of 1970s record producer Neil Bogart, co-founder of Casablanca Records.

	Author	Review
United States	Michael Ordoña Los Angeles Times	"The filmmaking lacks the style to pull off its willful blending of fact and fantasy"	NEG
Canada	Andrew Parker The Gate	"An endearingly scrappy, but resoundingly one sided and fawning biopic, 'Spinning Gold' thinks it's an underdog, but it gets bogged down in the same cliches as the big dogs"	NEU
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"Maybe 'Spinning Gold' would have worked better as an all-out musical instead of an unsteady biopic that never truly finds its footing (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Mick LaSalle San Francisco Chronicle	"Hats off to Neil Bogart and congratulations to his son for making a fair attempt at telling his story (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Adam Graham Detroit News	"It's a music tale without a pulse, without rhythm. And most tragically, given its subject, without soul"	NEG
Canada	Brittany Witherspoon Screen Rant	"The script doesn't always hit the mark, but 'Spinning Gold' is satisfying even if mostly due to the great music it celebrates (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Cary Darling Houston Chronicle	"A laborious, 137-minute biopic that manages to be both overstuffed and underfed (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	James Verniere Boston Herald	"[An] engrossing portrait of Casablanca Records founder Neil Bogart and the music industry in the 1970s. Cast is pretty terrific"	POS
United States	Lisa Kennedy The New York Times	"A son’s tribute to the Casablanca Records impresario Neil Bogart gives short shrift to the art and the artists"	NEG
United States	Peter Sobczynski rogerebert.com	"The problem with 'Spinning Gold' is not that it's a bad movie so much as a boring one about a true story (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"Timothy Scott Bogart wants to do justice to his father’s story and legacy, but the movie simply isn’t accomplished enough to bring that off. But it does, at least, make you see the funky splendor of his dream"	NEU
United States	John Fink The Film Stage	"The final result suggests a project that had to cut corners along the way rather than take time to develop characters"	NEG
United States	Marah Eakin Chicago Reader	"The movie suffers from a lack of objectivity about its subject as well as from a lack of vision about the film’s true direction"	NEG

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