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Critics Consensus: Whitney: Can I Be Me offers a sobering inside look at the tragic downfall of a brilliant performer, even as it leaves the audience yearning for deeper insight.
Critic Consensus: Whitney: Can I Be Me offers a sobering inside look at the tragic downfall of a brilliant performer, even as it leaves the audience yearning for deeper insight.
All Critics (74) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (64) | Rotten (10)
It crafts a heartbreaking narrative through found footage, including never-before-seen interviews, performances and clips that address everything from her intimate relationship with best friend Robyn Crawford to her tumultuous marriage to Bobby Brown.
Whitney itself operates on two levels -- delivering another cautionary tale about the price of fame, but also a tribute to a voice so big and buoyant that it continues to echo long after her death.
As is often the case in documentaries like this, absorbing all those details as part of one, tightly edited story gives them an impact they lack when digested in individual pieces over time.
A surprisingly conventional, dutifully respectful behind-the-scenes portrait of Whitney Houston's rise and struggles with fame and drugs before her death at 48.
"Whitney's" story makes for strong and compelling viewing even though it has something of a cobbled together feel to it.
[A] sharp, well-edited film ...
It's surprising how little Broomfield inserts himself into the narrative...[he] is respectful and Crawford is only present in old footage...
By the film's end, truthfully, no greater insight has been extracted as to who this strangely anomalous superstar really was.
A sympathetic backstage documentary on the rise and fall of renown African-American singer Whitney Houston.
A heartbreaking documentary...Crawford appears in the documentary herself, and hearing her speak about Houston alleviates any concern; it's clear you are watching someone who really did love the celebrated vocalist.
Music documentaries often peddle the myth that suffering is the hallmark of a great artist, and redemption always lies on the other side of hardship. Whitney: Can I Be Me, on the other hand, is a simple tragedy.
What Asif Kapadia's Amy did for the tragic story of Amy Winehouse, now Nick Broomfield and Rudi Dolezal's Whitney: Can I Be Me does for Whitney Houston.
Felt surprisingly short and as if it could have covered more. Admittedly I have never been a fan or followed Whitney's career, so I knew next to nothing about her anyhow, aside from the hits and the drug abuse, marriage to Bobby Brown etc. I am assuming most interested in this would probably go into it with a bit more background than I did. I did get the impression of a slightly sad, insecure woman, which isn't at all what I would have pictured. Focuses more on the personal than the music, which I appreciated, but still could have gone a bit deeper.
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Another of those passable but uninspired documentaries that feel more like a reportage, as they set out to tell us about someone's life and yet in the end we have only the strong impression that we didn't learn much about who that person was, felt or even thought.
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