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Bessie

The story of legendary blues performer Bessie Smith, who rose to fame during the 1920s and '30s.
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The Playlist
May 12, 2015 "Bessie" knows all the right words, but hasn't quite learned how to sing them just yet.
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Common Sense Media
August 15, 2016 Gritty biopic has sex, violence, drinking, great music.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
May 14, 2015 The story is so intent on covering the title character's life almost in its entirety that character motivations suffer.
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Uncle Barky
December 03, 2015 It fleshes out Bessie Smith to a degree but certainly not in full measure. Latifah and Rainey can sure sing out, though. It's a pleasure to watch and hear them wail in a film that otherwise doesn't quite cut it.
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Washington Post
December 03, 2015 A thoughtful and at times stirring example of how a film can add texture to a legendary figure.
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San Francisco Chronicle
December 03, 2015 Bessie boasts powerful performances and a chance to hear the early blues popularized by Smith and her mentor, Ma Rainey.
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Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
June 02, 2015 Presents the powerhouse vocalist as a blues belter in more ways than one -- a pugnacious scrapper with a fierce streak of racial pride, a sexual appetite that crossed gender lines and a hair-trigger temper that sometimes served her well...
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Newsday
December 03, 2015 Well-made biopic absent a whole lot of music and -- as a result -- much emotional resonance.
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New York Times
December 03, 2015 Bessie shows us an assortment of moments from that life but doesn't really make us feel it, despite Queen Latifah's best efforts.
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Variety
December 03, 2015 Bessie isn't a perfect movie. But for HBO's purposes, it's a big-time noisemaker - one with the kind of show-stopping work that, when they start handing out trophies, isn't likely to leave its star singin' the blues.
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culturevulture.net
May 23, 2015 ... give Bessie a try ... to see Queen Latifah's performance and learn a bit about Bessie Smith's life and times, and turn in off if and when it starts to drag.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
March 13, 2017 Queen Latifah is convincing as Bessie.
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Annabelle: Creation
IMDb: 7
2017
109 min
Country: United States
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Twelve years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into ...