Nina

Nina filters the singer’s voice — and her life — through tinny-sounding speakers and an out-of-focus lens.

3127d ago

Too small a film for such a towering subject.

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Deep into her earnest, uncertain Nina Simone drama, Nina, writer-director Cynthia Mort at last musters up a sequence of gravity and power.

3127d ago

Ms. Mort’s writing lacks psychological texture, and her direction generates little intensity, or even continuity.

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The whole endeavor seems like a bad idea badly executed, and one can only imagine that Simone, a fierce advocate of black pride and empowerment, would be aghast at this cheesy rendition of the later years of her life.

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This long-delayed biopic on soul goddess Nina Simone hits all the wrong notes.

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The film is committed to the sort of broad strokes that reduce a great artist's life to a spectacle of self-pity.

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It is shabby, as well as disjointed, superficial and just plain dull, a dislikable rendering of a tumultuous life.

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“Nina” is as offensive and insulting as you’ve heard. Even worse, it spits on the legacy of one of the most important African-American performer-activists in American music history.

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If you are unfortunate enough to see “Nina,” you will need to spend a lot of time afterward listening to the real Simone on records and YouTube and anywhere else you can find a place where her intensely moving voice still lives.

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