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By Jacob Oller (247) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 24 Mar 2016

Robert Budreau‘s Born To Be Blue turns Baker’s darkest professional and personal period into a sepia weepy…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 24 Mar 2016

The writing and direction, by Robert Budreau, range from pedestrian to lethargic — not a good thing when the subject is passive more often than not…

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By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 23 Mar 2016

While there isn’t much to distinguish Born To Be Blue’s dramatic stakes from any number of stories about self-destructive, self-centered…

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By Serena Donadoni (158) for Village Voice (8,525) on 22 Mar 2016

Budreau's variation on the theme of Chet Baker doesn't play out as an inspired improvisation, settling instead into the familiar grooves of…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Mar 2016

Robert Budreau strip-mines the life of an amazing musician for the purpose of mounting yet another comeback story…

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By Brad Wheeler (426) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 10 Mar 2016

Budreau constructs with imagination and pleasing fluidity, painting a portrait with a soft, sympathetic focus while steering clear of worship…

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By Benjamin Lee (469) for The Guardian (2,969) on 18 Sep 2015

Born to be Blue is a curious mixture of fact and fiction, cliche and originality, style and emotion – it never truly soars but by throwing…

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By Andrew Barker (315) for Variety (12,700) on 15 Sep 2015

Upending the conventions of the musical rise-and-fall formula while still offering a relatively straightforward three-act narrative, the film…

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By Sam Fragoso (108) for The Playlist (3,871) on 15 Sep 2015

On the whole, Born to Be Blue does right by its central subject…

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By Fionnuala Halligan (367) for Screen Daily (1,021) on 15 Sep 2015

Ethan Hawke delivers an intense, committed performance as the hopelessly drug-addicted trumpeter Chet Baker in the odd, erratic Born To Be…

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By Stephen Dalton (194) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 15 Sep 2015

Hawke is natural casting as Baker, sharing enough facial similarities to capture some of the late jazz icon's chiseled, hollow-cheeked, fallen-angel…

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