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Purple Rain

1984

Albert Magnoli

Prince, Apollonia Kotero, Morris Day, Clarence Williams III ...

5.1

1,254

Musical. Drama A young man with a talent for music has begun a career with much promise. He meets an aspiring singer, Apollonia, and finds that talent alone isn't all that he needs. A complicated tale of his repeating his father's self destructive behavior, losing Apollonia to another singer (Morris Day), and his coming to grips with his own connection to other people ensues.

	Author	Review
United States	Gary Arnold The Washington Post	"'Purple Rain' celebrates show-business narcissism and drenches it in a kind of cheap-perfume imagery, which owes its basic inspiration to the cliche's of advertising art"	NEG
United States	Duane Byrge The Hollywood Reporter	"Even those who aren’t Prince fans are likely to be captivated by its energy, enamored with its simple, often poignant storyline"	POS
United States	Cynthia Kirk Variety	"Pic captures the essence of the current music scene, and the colorful Prince persona, very well indeed"	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"The project would have been much more palatable as a TV special; as it stands, it's just another symptom of the American cinema's addiction to facile myth-making."	NEG
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"Hokey but mesmerizing (...) This is the rare pop movie that works the way a great rock & roll song does"	POS
United States	Todd Gilchrist Rolling Stone	"Masterpiece (...) It fills the space between the man and the legend"	POS

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