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Born to Be Blue benefits from a highlight-reel performance from Ethan Hawke and an impressionistic, non-hagiographic approach to Chet Baker's life and times.
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Ejogo makes vivid work of that dread device, the composite character. Hawke, film-star handsome but unable to match the ruined angel looks of his alter-ego, still manages to summon up his lost-boy charisma. December 27, 2016 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Ejogo makes vivid work of that dread device, the composite character. Hawke, film-star handsome but unable to match the ruined angel looks of his alter-ego, still manages to summon up his lost-boy charisma.
Danny Leigh
Born to be Blue is perhaps a too-clever fictionalised take on the life of the jazz trumpeter Chet Baker, although Ethan Hawke's performance as the musician is as compelling as it is painful. October 10, 2016 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Born to be Blue is perhaps a too-clever fictionalised take on the life of the jazz trumpeter Chet Baker, although Ethan Hawke's performance as the musician is as compelling as it is painful.
Kate Muir
Hawke portrays Baker as a little boy lost: selfish, sweet, insecure, arrogant, impossible to live with. July 25, 2016 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Hawke portrays Baker as a little boy lost: selfish, sweet, insecure, arrogant, impossible to live with.
Cath Clarke
Becomes so wedded to stodgy melodrama that you wind up thinking it's a bore to be that blue and just want to hear the man play. July 24, 2016 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Becomes so wedded to stodgy melodrama that you wind up thinking it's a bore to be that blue and just want to hear the man play.
Charlotte O'Sullivan
The occasional lows only serve to illustrate what a minefield the genius biopic can be - and how Born to be Blue skips through the genre more nimbly than most. July 24, 2016 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
The occasional lows only serve to illustrate what a minefield the genius biopic can be - and how Born to be Blue skips through the genre more nimbly than most.
Robbie Collin
You feel closer to Chet than you did coming in - and is this Hawke's greatest role? July 24, 2016 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
You feel closer to Chet than you did coming in - and is this Hawke's greatest role?
Trevor Johnston
Thanks to Hawke's painstaking recreation of Baker's ill habits and devoted heart, BORN TO BE BLUE is able to eclipse its musical biopic bandmates. March 30, 2019 | Rating: B | Full Review…
Thanks to Hawke's painstaking recreation of Baker's ill habits and devoted heart, BORN TO BE BLUE is able to eclipse its musical biopic bandmates.
Preston Barta
There's a plethora of jazz biopics around. This one leaves you with a feeling of unfulfilled promise, both in the life it portrays and in itself. February 20, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
There's a plethora of jazz biopics around. This one leaves you with a feeling of unfulfilled promise, both in the life it portrays and in itself.
Alexa Dalby
Hawke is very good here. I'm not his biggest fan, but he gets Baker's distinctive, whispery voice, whether speaking or singing. November 27, 2018 | Full Review…
Hawke is very good here. I'm not his biggest fan, but he gets Baker's distinctive, whispery voice, whether speaking or singing.
Steve Murray
Presenting a career-best performance from Ethan Hawke, Born to Be Blue earns its place as one of the best jazz movies to grace the screen. November 27, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Presenting a career-best performance from Ethan Hawke, Born to Be Blue earns its place as one of the best jazz movies to grace the screen.
Don Shanahan
It all works because of Hawke and Ejogo. November 27, 2018 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
It all works because of Hawke and Ejogo.
Jeff Simon
The movie is slight but silly, goofy without being goony. September 27, 2017 | Full Review…
The movie is slight but silly, goofy without being goony.
M. Faust
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