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Release Date: April 1st, 2016

DVD Release Date: July 19th, 2016

R|1 hr 36 min

Plot Summary
In the 1970s, down-and-out jazz trumpeter Miles Davis (Don Cheadle) tries to recover his new session tape from music producers.

Cast: Don Cheadle, Ewan McGregor, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Keith Stanfield, Michael Stuhlbarg, Austin Lyon, Morgan Wolk, Christina Karis

Director: Don Cheadle

Genres: Music, Historical drama, Biography, Drama

Production Co: Miles Davis Properties, Bifrost Pictures, Sobini Films, IM Global, Crescendo, Naked City Films

Distributors: Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures Classics

Keywords: Amusing, Gritty, Melodramatic, Hilarious, New York City, Fascinating, 1970s, Quest, Girlfriend, Cheeky

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  • 75
    Steven ReaPhiladelphia Inquirer

    Miles Ahead is more a provocative character sketch than a meaty portrait, but it's a film that should be applauded for its daring, and for Cheadle's shape-shifting, soul-baring work. show more

  • 70
    David RooneyThe Hollywood Reporter

    The abstraction of the approach perhaps limits the scope of Miles Ahead as an acting showcase, though in Cheadle's fully inhabited characterization, he nails the subject's soft, nicotine-scratched rasp and his eccentric irritability and paranoia with discerning understatement. show more

  • 70
    Graham FullerScreen International

    First-time feature director Don Cheadle has made an invigoratingly bold attempt to structure his film about Miles Davis as an extended visual and narrative equivalent of modal jazz. show more

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