Notorious (2009) Critic Reviews
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Based upon 14 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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Notorious settles into a curious comfort zone; it's half pop fable, half naturalistic docudrama. Not a bad movie, but nowhere near as strong as its soundtrack.Read the full review
Through it all are the rhymes and the music, hugely enjoyable in their own right, and the long, large shadow of Biggie.Read the full review
Cloyingly, Biggie narrates his tale from the grave. It's a device that feels irksome and condescending.Read the full review
Notorious is like a piece of well-crafted bling. It looks good, and facets of it shine, but behind the gilded facade there's not much there. And what is there can be troubling and retrogressive.Read the full review
Like a drunk on a bender, Notorious seems to have given up even trying to moderate its dependence on cliché.Read the full review
It's not bad enough to walk out on but neither is it good enough to walk into.Read the full review
A rock-solid biopic with a foolproof rise-and-fall storyline and a warmly nuanced performance by Jamal Woolard.Read the full review
A fawning bio-pic.Read the full review
For a man apparently making his first film, Woolard carries the movie like a pro. Cross your fingers that this is no fluke, for this guy could be a real comer.Read the full review
Notorious suffers from biopic-itis, that regrettable tendency to reduce complicated lives to a greatest-hits assemblage of melodramatic highs and agonizing lows.Read the full review
