Given its garish production history, one rather expected The Cotton Club to sing with hot-jazz desperation. Instead, we get the mediocre craftsmanship of a pit band in Vegas.
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03/13/09
The Cotton Club (1984)
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Reviews Counted:23
Fresh:17
Rotten:6
Average Rating:6.3/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 45 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: It's the height of the 1920s Jazz Age and Harlem's famous Cotton Club is the home to both talented performers and gangster molls. Dixie Dwyer (Richard Gere) is a cornet player who unexpectedly... [More]
Starring: Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, Lonette McKee
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
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Reviews for The Cotton Club
Top CriticThis musical gangster movie is a tour de force, even if a little muddled.
03/13/09
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09/13/08
Lavish, interesting, evocative but strained and self-conscious, Cotton Club is all watchable curiosity.
12/11/07
It was the most assured film Coppola had made in a decade, full of casual wit and visual invention.
12/11/07
Top CriticNo review available.
10/24/07
The narrative is a mess despite the simplistic twinning of tales.
06/24/06
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07/07/05
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07/04/05
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05/06/05
Whatever it took to do it, Coppola has extracted a very special film out of the checkered history of this project.
10/23/04
Top CriticEnergetic and involving.
06/05/04
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03/05/04
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08/20/03
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02/17/03
Coppola's most shamefully underrated movie.
01/17/03
No review available.
10/04/02
Ambitious, but like many post-Apocalypse Coppola films, it doesn't quite hit the mark.
07/25/02
There're always something and someone interesting just around the corner; and, if Coppola seems to have difficulty with the story's narrative line, he does manage to help the audience keep straight the huge cast of characters.
06/05/02
There are lots of good ideas, but none of them are really worked out or honed
08/16/01
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