ATL Critic Reviews

What I liked most was its unforced, genuine affection for its characters.Read the full review

An emotionally charged coming-of-age saga that will make you laugh and cry, maybe at the same time.Read the full review

Robinson has assembled an impressive young cast comprised primarily of rappers (such as Tip Harris, a.k.a. T.I.) and fresh faces (newcomer Lauren London).Read the full review

Notwithstanding the melodrama and the often ham-handed directing, ATL somehow works. A large part of this is thanks to Robinson's skill in evoking the hickory-smoked flavor of the ATL.Read the full review

The more rink time, the better: As directed by hip-hop music-video king Chris Robinson from a story by "Antwone Fisher's" Antwone Fisher, the skate scenes are a blast.Read the full review

Is ATL even a hip-hop movie? There's hip-hop in it, certainly, but unlike the recent vehicles for Eminem and 50 Cent -- respectively, ''8 Mile" and ''Get Rich or Die Tryin' " -- it does not have a rapper hero.Read the full review

Higher on stylistic dazzle than originality or coherence.Read the full review

Several good ideas for a movie rumble around inside ATL, but they never coalesce.Read the full review

The fun here is in seeing a new batch of rappers try acting, and some of them turn out to be eminently watchable.Read the full review