Review of Straight Outta Compton (2015) by Joe Morgenstern for Wall Street Journal — 12 Aug 2015

With a running time of 147 minutes, the film not only runs low on energy toward the end — internecine battles can’t compete with the early excitement of gifted young kids making it big on a national stage — but turns ploddingly sentimental in its sudden focus on Eazy-E’s painful decline, and death, from AIDS.