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Biggie and Tupac (2002)
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Reviews Counted:15
Fresh:10
Rotten:5
Average Rating:5.9/10
Consensus: This is a compelling documentary, even for those who aren't fans of rap.
Theatrical Release:Sep 27, 2002 Limited
Synopsis: Hot on the trail of another controversial and provocative subject, award-winning documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield (Kurt & Courtney; Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam; Aileen Wournos: The Selling... [More]
Starring: Russell Poole, Voletta Wallace, Nick Broomfield
Director: Nick Broomfield
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Reviews for Biggie and Tupac
1 - 16 (sorted by date)
Top CriticCompulsively watchable and endlessly inventive as it transforms Broomfield's limited materials into a compelling argument.
01/10/03
Top CriticYou don't need to know your Ice-T's from your Cool-J's to realize that as far as these shootings are concerned, something is rotten in the state of California.
01/09/03
Top CriticBroomfield's style of journalism is hardly journalism at all, and even those with an avid interest in the subject will grow impatient.
10/25/02
Top CriticMost of the information has already appeared in one forum or another and, no matter how Broomfield dresses it up, it tends to speculation, conspiracy theories or, at best, circumstantial evidence.
10/24/02
Top CriticBristles with the sort of passion and bold purpose so often lacking in contemporary nonfiction filmmaking.
10/03/02
Top CriticIt's like a rap Rashomon. There's a million different stories here.
09/30/02
Top CriticNothing sticks, really, except a lingering creepiness one feels from being dragged through a sad, sordid universe of guns, drugs, avarice and damaged dreams.
09/27/02
Top CriticJournalistically dubious, inept and often lethally dull.
09/27/02
Top Critic[Broomfield] uncovers a story powerful enough to leave the screen sizzling with intrigue.
09/27/02
Top CriticNick Broomfield's dishonest film Biggie and Tupac solves nothing about the rap world's most notorious murders.
09/26/02
Top CriticWhether or not you buy Mr. Broomfield's findings, the film acquires an undeniable entertainment value as the slight, pale Mr. Broomfield continues to force himself on people and into situations that would make lesser men run for cover.
09/26/02
Top CriticThe footage of the rappers at play and the prison interview with Suge Knight are just two of the elements that will grab you.
09/26/02
Top CriticA first-person whodunit in which the filmmaker casts himself as a seedy gumshoe poking around a hallucinatory world in which poverty, crime, and drugs mix with fantastic wealth and grandiose scenarios lifted from The Godfather and Scarface.
09/24/02
Top CriticIn exploring their deaths, Broomfield sheds light on his subjects' lives and art, reminding us why their loss still reverberates and their albums still sell in the millions.
09/20/02
Top CriticIn general, the film is a series of Broomfield popping up Michael Moore-style, unannounced, and drilling the unsuspecting subjects with invasive and blunt questions.
08/21/02
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