What's Love Got To Do With It? Reviews

Powerful bio of Tina Turner with domestic violence, drugs.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

A passionate personal and professional drama that hits both the high and low notes of an extraordinary career.

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As Tina Turner, Angela Bassett gives a powerhouse well-deserved Oscar-nominated performance, but the biopic has more than its fair share of showbiz cliches.

Full Review | Original Score: B

Angela Bassett shakes her tail feather with aplomb and pins down the singer's gestures with amazing precision. Top honours, however, belong to Fishburne's swaggering, savage portrayal of Ike.

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This biography of rock diva Tina Turner's turbulent life is filled with energetic musical numbers and emotionally charged moments, all anchored by two outstanding lead performances.

| Original Score: 7.5/10

Could have been a made for tv movie but elevated by the work of Bassett and Fishburne.

| Original Score: 4/5

Depressing but also terrific. Bassett stuns.

| Original Score: 4/5

Angela Bassett, despite bearing little physical resemblance to the singer, is very convincing in her role. Her partner Laurence Fishburne is even more impressive...

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10

A revealing musical melodrama that shakes as radically as soulful Tina Turner's sweet hips. Both Bassett and Fishburne deliver energetic, Oscar-worthy performances!

| Original Score: 4/5

The brilliant, mercurial portrayal of Ike Turner by Laurence Fishburne is what elevates What's Love Got to Do With It beyond the realm of run-of-the-mill biography.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

Incendiary performances by Fishburne and Bassett.

| Original Score: 4/5

The perfect combination of stellar turns and sensational music

| Original Score: 4/5

A celebrity biopic rendered with heartfelt respect; it never shies away from the ugliness in Turner's life, but neither does it exploit it for cheap emotional effect.

| Original Score: 4/5

It's a story of pain and courage, uncommonly honest and unflinching, and the next time I hear Tina Turner singing I will listen to the song in a whole new way.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

A melodrama of starry-eyed love and black-eyed beatings, exhausting road tours and the singer's even harder road to self-realization, the movie contains its emotional highs and lows in the hermetically sealed bio-pic format.

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A handsome woman with the lanky appeal of Katharine Hepburn, Bassett brays and bruises with equal effectiveness.

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The movie makes us all want to stand up and cheer, "Shine on, Tina. Shine on."

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

What's Love Got to Do With It is a rough-and-tumble show-biz biography that has many of the cliches inherent to this genre. But it also boasts two stunning, Oscar-worthy performances.

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Fishburne is excellent in a very unsympathetic role. Ike Turner could so easily have been portrayed as one-dimensional, but the talented Fishburne gives this frightened wife-beater some depth.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Angela Bassett does a good acting job as a person in Tina Turner's position, easily winning audience sympathy.

Full Review | Original Score: low +1 out of -4..+4