Rotten
Never seems authentic or real, just a bizarrely staged re-creation.
Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times
Nina
Singer. Activist. Survivor. Legend.
2016 · 1h 30m · Not Rated
Drama, Music
Directed by
Cynthia Mort
Overview
The story of the late jazz musician and classical pianist Nina Simone including her rise to fame and relationship with her manager Clifton Henderson.
Director and cast
- Cynthia Mort Director
- Zoe Saldaña as Nina Simone
- David Oyelowo as Clifton Henderson
- Mike Epps as Richard Pryor
- Ella A. Thomas as Lorraine Hansberry
- Ronald Guttman as Henri Edwards
- Ella Joyce as Clifton's Mom
- Keith David as Clifton's Father
- Mary Pat Gleason as Ordlery Pat
- Siena Goines as Heather
- Kit Leonard Dennis as Lawyer
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
2%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Respectfully factual in its over-all contours but sensational and sentimental nonetheless, the movie reduces Simone's life to cliches about hope; it replaces the creative drive with the commercial one, the artist with the celebrity.
Richard Brody, New Yorker
Rotten
Saldana does a fine job of delivering the lyrics -- a daunting task for any actress required to step into those vocals, but fans of Simone will be aching for the real deal.
Miriam Di Nunzio, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
A Nina Simone novice seeing this picture would have no idea who this complex, magnificent artist was, or why she mattered.
Stephanie Zacharek, TIME Magazine
Rotten
Why Mort, who wrote and directed the film, has chosen to focus on Simone's troubled 1990s period in France is anyone's guess.
Jake Coyle, Associated Press
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