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By David Blaustein (150) for ABC News Radio (149) on 30 May 2016

Don Cheadle turns in a virtuoso performance not only as the star of Miles Ahead, but also as the director and co-writer of this non-linear,…

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By Fico Cangiano (235) for CineXpress (235) on 10 May 2016

Miles Ahead is a film that showcases Don Cheadle's talent. [Full review in Spanish]…

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By John Serba (472) for MLive.com (475) on 09 May 2016

Messy, audacious and entertaining, a passionate truth about the man, as the filmmaker sees it, hears it, feels it…

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By Kelly Vance (1,015) for East Bay Express (1,012) on 28 Apr 2016

An indispensable meditation on the pain of pure creativity…

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By Rick Kisonak (485) for Seven Days (657) on 26 Apr 2016

Cheadle gives a convincing physical performance, looking and sounding eerily like Davis, but this is otherwise a confounding cartoon…

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By Aine O'connor (240) for Sunday Independent (Ireland) (504) on 24 Apr 2016

In delivering a piece of Davis's life, the film does give an overall impression of the man and Cheadle, with those amazingly expressive eyes,…

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By Allan Hunter (1,486) for Daily Express (UK) (2,141) on 23 Apr 2016

An incredible journey that touches on aspects of Davis's life, loves and self-destructive urges in a smoothly handled labour of love…

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By Mark Kermode (1,002) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 23 Apr 2016

Like Davis's music, the film's structure is modal, with Cheadle getting the legend's changing stance spot on, as we slip on a cymbal splash…

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By John Urbancich (394) for Your Movies (cleveland.com) (472) on 23 Apr 2016

The gifted Cheadle and music of the legendary Davis do most of the heavy lifting here, but there's a mesmerizing tempo to it all that takes…

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By Jay Stone (286) for Ex-Press.com (333) on 23 Apr 2016

If Davis can embellish Rodgers and Hart's It Never Entered My Mind, for instance, then who can complain about a gunfight that didn't take place,…

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By Charlotte O'sullivan (637) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 23 Apr 2016

Actor Don Cheadle, the star, director and co-writer of this ambitious biopic, doesn't want to play nicely. He wants to play…

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By Henry Fitzherbert (699) for Daily Express (UK) (2,141) on 23 Apr 2016

It's a curio for Davis fans rather than a rewarding watch for people, like me, who knew little about him in the first place…

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By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 22 Apr 2016

Miles Ahead has attitude to burn, but the riffs it plays on the trumpeter's life prove as frustrating as they are fascinating…

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By Christian Toto (897) for HollywoodInToto.com (350) on 22 Apr 2016

Miles Ahead leaves out the rise and fall narrative, and there's no moment where Davis first hears his music on the radio…

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By Donald Clarke (1,051) for Irish Times (1,391) on 21 Apr 2016

The film is alive with some lovely moments that point towards half-grasped possibilities…

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By Geoffrey Macnab (1,253) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 21 Apr 2016

Davis's behaviour is monstrous but Cheadle plays him with such charisma that he seems perversely sympathetic anyway. We root for him…

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By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 21 Apr 2016

It's an odd, disjointed, incoherent film, and only Mr Cheadle's acting and snatches of Mr Davis's divine music make it worth watching…

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By Marcus Crowder (1) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 21 Apr 2016

Cheadle brilliantly inhabits one of the 20th century's outsized geniuses, thoroughly getting under Davis' skin while bringing a mostly heard…

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By Robert Horton (590) for HeraldNet (Everett, WA) (288) on 21 Apr 2016

There's the music, of course. Nothing touches that…

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By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 21 Apr 2016

Cheadle does fine work as the desiccated and unstable Davis, but as a director, his visual attempts to match the fiery cool of Davis' music…

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