Whitney

Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald looks at the damaged woman behind the pop supernova in this sensitive chronicle of the blazing rise and tragic fall of Whitney Houston.

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Since Whitney Houston’s death from an overdose six years ago, many attempts have been made to tell the singer’s story. But this documentary is the first to feature interviews with those closest to Houston, resulting in never-before-heard revelations.

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Whitney Houston’s life goes back under the microscope in a tough-minded and unsparing new documentary.

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The second documentary in a year about the life and death of Whitney Houston offers a powerful testament to her soaring artistry — and, more than that, a haunting explanation for why she destroyed herself.

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Kevin Macdonald (“One Day in September”) weaves together a tragic tapestry of the life and death of an American icon

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At not quite the halfway point of “Whitney,” a well-done but all-too-woeful wallow of a documentary that recounts Whitney Houston’s swift rise to unparalleled stardom and tragic decline that ended in 2012 after she drowned in a hotel bathtub at age 48

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Kevin Macdonald’s doc on Whitney Houston drops a shocking revelation – but his look at how she fell apart is anything but sensationalistic

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“Whitney” Soars When It Lets Its Subject Speak and Sing for Herself

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Whitney is too funereal to be a party, too sad, strange and dismaying to cheer. Yet, in its grim, guilt-inducing way, the film works, even on the occasions when it’s working against itself.

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Throughout, there’s as much tour footage of shadowy backstage rooms and hotly lit hotel suites as there is of the stages across which Houston sung the hits that solidified her legend, and our eyes strain to make out truth of her life through the hazy fug of pills and marijuana.

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A breathtaking bombshell lies at the heart of Kevin Macdonald’s documentary, which is all the more poignant for its detachment

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For those who only remember Houston as the train-wreck spectacle she devolved into during her latter years, this documentary will do a good job of providing the basic outline of her life.

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Dark family secrets help explain the diva's sad demise

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Kevin Macdonald’s film about the life and death of the troubled singer unveils a huge revelation two-thirds of the way in

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