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Entertaining for longtime fans as well as casually interested viewers, Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool burnishes the legacy of a brilliant artist.
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Release date: Aug 23, 2019
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All Critics (49) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (46) | Rotten (3)
The result, for the most part, is pleasant and informative, if not particularly inspiring or revelatory. But now and then, the music and images can't help but break through. Sep 28, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
The result, for the most part, is pleasant and informative, if not particularly inspiring or revelatory. But now and then, the music and images can't help but break through.
Matthew Lickona
The film is kind of brilliant in the way it covers and contextualizes more than 50 years of groundbreaking music in barely two hours. Sep 12, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
The film is kind of brilliant in the way it covers and contextualizes more than 50 years of groundbreaking music in barely two hours.
Peter Howell
It's a film that Miles himself would recognize - truthful, gritty, elegantly musical, unpredictable and even surprising - the kind of complex yet elegiac tribute a man as relentlessly real as Miles Davis deserves. Sep 4, 2019 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
It's a film that Miles himself would recognize - truthful, gritty, elegantly musical, unpredictable and even surprising - the kind of complex yet elegiac tribute a man as relentlessly real as Miles Davis deserves.
Joel Selvin
A gossipy and very musical primer on Davis, who is, needless to say (though it is said and said), among the giants of jazz. Aug 29, 2019 | Full Review…
A gossipy and very musical primer on Davis, who is, needless to say (though it is said and said), among the giants of jazz.
John Anderson
You'll want to listen to Miles' music after watching the film and, when you do, you might feel it a little deeper. Aug 28, 2019 | Full Review…
You'll want to listen to Miles' music after watching the film and, when you do, you might feel it a little deeper.
Glenn Whipp
For either newcomers or fans, the documentary's cradle-to-grave, talking-head approach too readily threatens to take the zip, romance, and funk out of a fascinating subject who would be nothing without those very elements. Aug 23, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
For either newcomers or fans, the documentary's cradle-to-grave, talking-head approach too readily threatens to take the zip, romance, and funk out of a fascinating subject who would be nothing without those very elements.
Nick Allen
Like Davis' own life, Nelson's film follows a predictable pattern - which seems a little sad given the dynamic style of Davis' music. But that may not matter for those happy to just get lost in the atmosphere of Miles Davis' music. Oct 18, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Like Davis' own life, Nelson's film follows a predictable pattern - which seems a little sad given the dynamic style of Davis' music. But that may not matter for those happy to just get lost in the atmosphere of Miles Davis' music.
Josh Terry
Though not as groundbreaking as its subject, the expansive documentary showcases the jazz icon's innovative, ever-changing musical style while at least acknowledging the damage his personal demons wrought... Oct 17, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Though not as groundbreaking as its subject, the expansive documentary showcases the jazz icon's innovative, ever-changing musical style while at least acknowledging the damage his personal demons wrought...
Brandy McDonnell
This exceptional two-hour take covers a whole lot of ground and gives the music center stage, as it should. Oct 5, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
This exceptional two-hour take covers a whole lot of ground and gives the music center stage, as it should.
Steven Prokopy
A perfectly polished work that will serve as a solid introductory primer for those unfamiliar with his history while offering up enough juicy bits of performance footage to satisfy fans. Oct 4, 2019 | Full Review…
A perfectly polished work that will serve as a solid introductory primer for those unfamiliar with his history while offering up enough juicy bits of performance footage to satisfy fans.
Peter Sobczynski
One really would rather listen to the music, instead of hearing the same talking points about it. Oct 4, 2019 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
One really would rather listen to the music, instead of hearing the same talking points about it.
Mark Dujsik
Nelson tells Davis' warts and all story with plenty of room for remarkable bits of information, scholarly comments from an assortment of names and faces, and historical rhythms of Bebop that simply might drive jazz devotees to the brink in a good way. Sep 28, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Nelson tells Davis' warts and all story with plenty of room for remarkable bits of information, scholarly comments from an assortment of names and faces, and historical rhythms of Bebop that simply might drive jazz devotees to the brink in a good way.
John Urbancich
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