Nina

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Poe R Sep 1, 2017 The best bit of this film is Zoe Saldana's performance as Nina Simone, I thought she was spot on playing the singer at her most self destructive. What lets the film down a little is the way it is edited. It flits through various times in her life often without purpose. The focus is on Nina's later years and her relationship with her assistant who tried his best to look after the singer and save her career. It's a film with a strong decent lead and some very good music, it's just a shame that the rest of the film can't lift this up to the level of better musical biopics such as Walk the Line, Ray, Love & Mercy, Backbeat etc See more

Aug 25, 2017 i didnt even know the movie was still made, this is hilarious.

Leia G Apr 18, 2017 Deserved a far better response. Whatever wingspan this thing lacks behind the camera, is well made-up-for by Saldana's own. See more

Hermione R Feb 21, 2017 Nina is a by-the-numbers musical biopic riddled with every conceivable cliché about "the tortured artist." Nina never decides what it wants to say or where it wants to take us. Saldana (Avatar, Guardians of the Galaxy) is an accomplished and bankable actress, but she doesn't look much like Simone. That has led to several complaints, including from the Simone estate. A certain integrity and seriousness of intent gleams through, but Nina is just too big a subject, and talent, to be compressed into such a small package. Ignore all the politically-correct, blackface haters. Singing aside, Zoe Saldana delivers a decent enough Nina Simone impersonation here to make you wonder what all the brouhaha was ever about. Aside from some clunky expository dialogue and a few concluding title cards, the film barely goes into how Nina ended up so broken. It does try to give her a half-hearted redemption arc, but it fails to take off without convincing the audience why Nina needs or deserves redeeming. Zoe Saldana stirred up controversy by taking the title role, because she darkened her skin with makeup to play the part. That said, she acts with the right fire and sings beautifully and evocatively. During a long, uncut performance of "Wild Is the Wind," one of Simone's signature songs, we suddenly see why jazz fans swooned at her feet. VERDICT: "In The Zone" - [Mixed Reaction] These kinds of movies are usually movies that had some good things, but some bad things kept it from being amazing. This rating says buy an ex-rental or a cheap price of the DVD to own. If you consider cinema, ask for people's opinion on the film. (Films that are rated 2.5 or 3 stars) See more

Leia W Jan 23, 2017 uste eden dobar muzicki film za golemata legendarna Nina Simone...film koj vredi da se pogledne, posebno tie sto ja cenat i slusaat...edinstvenoto sto ne stima vo filmov e sto Zoe Saldana e premnogu zgodna i ubava za da ja igra Nina :) See more

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