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Idlewild has some truly breathtaking moments, but borrows too heavily from other similar movies, and the disjointed script is not worthy of talents involved.
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For a band whose music is suffused with such delicate irony, you'd expect at the very least for there to be a few laughs along the way? There are none. Nothing. Zero. Oct 14, 2006 | Full Review…
For a band whose music is suffused with such delicate irony, you'd expect at the very least for there to be a few laughs along the way? There are none. Nothing. Zero.
David Jenkins
You have to hand it to those OutKast fellas -- even when they make a mess, they do it with style. Sep 29, 2006 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
You have to hand it to those OutKast fellas -- even when they make a mess, they do it with style.
Matthew Leyland
You don't have to have a stylistic device in every single shot. Aug 28, 2006
You don't have to have a stylistic device in every single shot.
Richard Roeper
Shakespeare has been quoted many, many times over the past 400 or so years, but never to such empty purpose as in the inchoate, self-indulgent musical drama Idlewild Aug 25, 2006 | Full Review…
Shakespeare has been quoted many, many times over the past 400 or so years, but never to such empty purpose as in the inchoate, self-indulgent musical drama Idlewild
Joanne Kaufman
By jumbling genres, fashions, music and locales, and riddling bullets through much of it, Idlewild ends up feeling disjointed and disquieting. Aug 25, 2006 | Rating: 2.5/4
By jumbling genres, fashions, music and locales, and riddling bullets through much of it, Idlewild ends up feeling disjointed and disquieting.
Claudia Puig
A series of pretty-good pop videos wrapped around a confusing tale of Chitlin' Circuit striving and conniving. Aug 25, 2006 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
A series of pretty-good pop videos wrapped around a confusing tale of Chitlin' Circuit striving and conniving.
Peter Howell
It's a tame, well-rehearsed story that hangs together to ensure Idlewild plays like one incongruous pop promo after another. Nov 3, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
It's a tame, well-rehearsed story that hangs together to ensure Idlewild plays like one incongruous pop promo after another.
Kaleem Aftab
The only hope for saving the humorless Idlewild is the atmospheric speak-easy setting, the great dancing numbers and the chill soundtrack. Apr 23, 2018 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
The only hope for saving the humorless Idlewild is the atmospheric speak-easy setting, the great dancing numbers and the chill soundtrack.
Dennis Schwartz
Benjamin and Patton have devised a basic Prohibition era gangster story as a background for their newest musical experiment melding modern hip-hop with the jazz and blues of the '30s, all put together with a great deal of visual cleverness and flair. Mar 27, 2011 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
Benjamin and Patton have devised a basic Prohibition era gangster story as a background for their newest musical experiment melding modern hip-hop with the jazz and blues of the '30s, all put together with a great deal of visual cleverness and flair.
Joshua Starnes
Its hodgepodge plot only heightens its stale smell Aug 30, 2009 | Full Review…
Its hodgepodge plot only heightens its stale smell
Fernando F. Croce
Though not as good as I hoped it would be, it's still an above par musical effort in the end... Jul 11, 2007 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Though not as good as I hoped it would be, it's still an above par musical effort in the end...
Felix Vasquez Jr.
1930s black America becomes just a stage for OutKast's vanity project. Mar 15, 2007
1930s black America becomes just a stage for OutKast's vanity project.
Mark Palermo
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