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By Lizzie Plaugic (3) for The Verge (432) on 11 Aug 2015

The relatively unknown cast rises to the incredible challenge of portraying some of the most recognizable people in the music industry…

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By Collin Brennan (29) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 11 Aug 2015

Straight Outta Compton's ambition occasionally exceeds its grasp, and it's probably too clumsy to be considered a great film…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 11 Aug 2015

The picture isn't really a biography, it's an application for sainthood…

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By Matt Donato (975) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 11 Aug 2015

Straight Outta Compton is more a statement movie than a linear biopic, and while it runs a tad too long, Gray's cast never stops delivering…

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By Alison Willmore (681) for BuzzFeed News (197) on 11 Aug 2015

Vibrant, rambunctious, and as lopsided as a cake taken out of the oven too soon…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 11 Aug 2015

There's a grittier, grimier story in here, but it needed a different script and probably a different director than the uncritical F…

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By Odie Henderson (402) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 11 Aug 2015

It plays like a Marvel superhero movie had Marvel been run by Suge Knight…

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By Mike Scott (1,178) for Times-Picayune (642) on 11 Aug 2015

Straight Outta Compton doesn't shy entirely from the uglier side of the N.W.A…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 11 Aug 2015

It all adds up to a terrific, if biased on the side of the winners (Dre and Cube) history lesson, and a thoroughly compelling, very American…

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By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 11 Aug 2015

Aside from these few flourishes of the outré and symbolically charged, there’s little to distinguish the movie from any number of overlong…

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By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 10 Aug 2015

No matter how hard the script tries to artlessly name-drop basic facts or things to come, the movie has a lived-in groove, the actors doing…

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By Amy Nicholson (961) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 Aug 2015

It's clear that Straight Outta Compton is at once too padded and too thin…

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By Brian Formo (125) for IGN Movies (1,472) on 07 Aug 2015

Straight Outta Compton is as important as Selma in terms of putting the now on a similar plane as the then…

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By Chris Nashawaty (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 04 Aug 2015

Straight Outta Compton is a hugely entertaining film that works best if you don’t look at it too closely and just listen…

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By Scott Foundas (913) for Variety (12,700) on 30 Jul 2015

If “Compton” is undeniably of the moment, it’s also timeless in its depiction of how artists and writers transform the world around them…

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By Kate Erbland (681) for indieWire (3,631) on 30 Jul 2015

It’s biopic syndrome, this impulse to condense events to hit the high notes, to provide fans with recognizable stories, to essentially act…

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By Rodrigo Perez (382) for The Playlist (3,871) on 30 Jul 2015

Straight Outta Compton, while often entertaining and dynamic, ultimately feels as if its meant to act as a kind of cinematic trophy to rest…

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By Scott Mendelson (400) for Forbes (586) on 30 Jul 2015

The highly entertaining and sprawling biopic starts out with its pulse on the nation only to somewhat devolve into standard Behind the Music…

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By James Rocchi (1,075) for TheWrap (3,203) on 30 Jul 2015

Even with the film’s mild flaws and arms-wide-open approach, it tells a powerful, engaging and compelling story of how America challenged…

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By Nick Romano (26) for CinemaBlend.com (1,378) on 30 Jul 2015

Covers a lot of ground in recounting N.W.A.'s story. It begins and ends on high notes, though it loses its way ever so slightly in the middle…

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