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Herbie Hancock: Possibilities (2006)

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Average Rating: 4.2/10
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Ordinary music soars to extraordinary heights as gifted keyboardist Herbie Hancock joins forces with a variety of well-known music superstars to offer a completely original listening experience. As Hancock collaborates with such artists as Paul Simon, Annie Lennox, Sting, and John Mayer, the cameras are permitted into the studios and behind-the-scenes to show just what happens when some of the greatest music minds of a generation converge. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Apr 18, 2006

Magnolia Pictures

All Critics (10) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (7) | DVD (1)

[Possibilities] feels more like a behind-the-scenes CD promo than a fully realized film.

April 17, 2006 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | Comment
Los Angeles Times
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As directed by Doug Biro and Jon Fine, the film plays like one long commercial.

April 14, 2006 Comment
New York Post
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This documentary portrays the intense collaborative efforts that went into the recording of Herbie Hancocks latest album, Possibilities.

April 13, 2006 Comment
New York Times
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What we have here is a solid documentary covering one of the icons of modern music.

April 12, 2006 Comment
Hollywood Reporter
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Possibilities will likely draw in only the most hardcore of Hancock's fans.

April 11, 2006 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
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With its straightforward track-by-track recording-session clips, it feels like something you'd find on the bonus disc of a deluxe package.

April 11, 2006 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
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A cynic might regard Herbie Hancock: Possibilities as a glorified 'making of' video, fleshed out with some archival footage and clips from recent concerts.

May 1, 2006 Full Review Source: Film Journal International | Comment
Film Journal International

[The archival clips] are more interesting than the present-day material, which has the bland smoothness of a promotional press kit.

April 14, 2006 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
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With elder-statesman words of wisdom from the man himself, Possibilities celebrates an impulse that's too rare in modern music: the love behind the labor of creation.

April 13, 2006 Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | Comment
L.A. Weekly

Hancock's political musings seem mostly out of place in a film that, in essence, is little more than a glorified EPK.

April 6, 2006 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
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