Tupac: Resurrection Critic Reviews

As you listen to his uncanny narration of Tupac: Resurrection, which is stitched together from interviews, you realize you're not listening to the usual self-important vacancies from celebrity Q&As, but to spoken prose of a high order, in which analysis, memory and poetry come together seamlessly in sentences and paragraphs that sound as if they were written.Read the full review

It's no insult to Tupac to say that he was gangsta rap's greatest matinee idol, or that he lived the part only too well.Read the full review

The film leaves viewers with the sad, even tragic sense that his legacy would have been more profound had he gotten out of his own way. Read the full review

A poet warrior of the first order emerges in this riveting chronicle of the brief life and times of rap superstar Tupac Shakur.Read the full review

The result isn't a fragmentary experience so much as an evocative collage.Read the full review

Lazin's remarkable achievement is to catch Tupac in the act of discovering himself. It's something to see.Read the full review

The movie is like an extra-strength episode of MTV's ''Diary,'' which is like ''A&E Biography'' in the first person. Only ''Resurrection'' has a subject who's been dead for six years. Read the full review

Charismatic to a fault, he had the look of a prince, with a genuine smile; long, feminine eyelashes; and a forbiddingly shaved cranium. Read the full review

Lazin has without question skillfully assembled an entertaining, strongly narrative nonfiction package.Read the full review