Marley Reviews

Comprehensive docu on iconic reggae musician.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Serve[s] its many audiences, doing so without succumbing to faults that so easily could have plagued the film. Well crafted, with a soundtrack that's drawn from the astounding career of its subject, MARLEY joins the pantheon of top-notch music films.

Full Review | Original Score: A

Concert footage includes some of Bob Marley's best-known songs, "Get Up, Stand Up," "I Shot the Sheriff," "No Woman, No Cry," "One Love" and many others. Interviews with people who knew Marley at different times of his life provide a lot of color.

Full Review | Original Score: B

So far, the definitive biopic documentary on the elusive Bob Marley.

Full Review | Original Score: A-

Viewers will walk away knowing Bob Marley in much more intimate and accurate fashion, rather than the specious, superficial or incomplete picture they may have had before.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

A truly human portrait of an extraordinary life.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

You need not don a red, yellow, and green T-shirt to appreciate the film.

Full Review | Original Score: A-

This is as full a picture of Marley as is likely to emerge.

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Outstanding, thorough, often moving documentary about the tragically short life and huge influence of musician Bob Marley... by any fair measure, a great music documentary.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Macdonald and his editor have built a collage that really communicates in vibrant, cinematic language. Of course, it is about a musician, so rightly, it is wall to wall music

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[Kevin McDonald's] vast account of the music legend's life ambles along with the laid-back vibe of a reggae king.

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Bob Marley's short but amazing life

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Similarly, with 'Marley,' Macdonald provides some much needed context to the songs that have sold millions of copies throughout the world.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

Marley aficionados will be astonished by the depth and breadth of the documentary, which portrays the musician known as Tuff Gong as both a fallible man and an untouchable legend.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

It is the work of a man with opinions, based on endless questioning and research.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Marley is highly watchable, finely crafted legacy preservation - and it's either a white-washed sham or awesomely shaded.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

It wants to show us the man behind the famous dreads, beatific smile and durable songs of love, hope and longing. In this task it succeeds admirably.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Kevin Macdonald's "Marley" is worth sticking with, and not just for diehard fans who had "Get Up, Stand Up" emanating from their dorm room speakers all through college.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Bob Marley fanatics are going to treat this film like the Holy Bible.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Will get you up to speed regarding all things Marley.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5