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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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Davis is demystified and deconstructed in this corrective - and excellent - portrait. February 24, 2020 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Davis is demystified and deconstructed in this corrective - and excellent - portrait.
Verne Gay
Like many music documentaries, this profile of groundbreaking trumpet player and bandleader Miles Davis feels constrained by its conventional length, and devotes too little time to too many subjects. February 21, 2020 | Full Review…
Like many music documentaries, this profile of groundbreaking trumpet player and bandleader Miles Davis feels constrained by its conventional length, and devotes too little time to too many subjects.
Ben Sachs
A well-made account of both the man's achievements and his jerkiness. October 23, 2019 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
A well-made account of both the man's achievements and his jerkiness.
Tom Long
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. September 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. September 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. September 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
Excellent. [Full review in Spanish] March 18, 2020 | Full Review…
Excellent. [Full review in Spanish]
César Pradines
Those not familiar with Miles Davis will probably take more away than committed fans, although that will hopefully also open up some ears along the way. February 6, 2020 | Rating: 6/10 | Full Review…
Those not familiar with Miles Davis will probably take more away than committed fans, although that will hopefully also open up some ears along the way.
Steven Sheehan
In 'Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool', Director Stanley Nelson frames Davis' return to a reality in which he was not wanted but his music was as the catalyst for his addiction. December 6, 2019 | Full Review…
In 'Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool', Director Stanley Nelson frames Davis' return to a reality in which he was not wanted but his music was as the catalyst for his addiction.
Jonita Davis
He may have been a difficult, off-putting person in real life - okay, he DEFINITELY was - but when he played, his music touched something deep and elemental inside the listener. As one interviewee puts it, "I want to feel the way Miles sounds." October 28, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
He may have been a difficult, off-putting person in real life - okay, he DEFINITELY was - but when he played, his music touched something deep and elemental inside the listener. As one interviewee puts it, "I want to feel the way Miles sounds."
Rob Thomas
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. October 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... October 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
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