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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 12 Aug 2015

Alternately riveting and wearying, up-to-the-minute relevant as well as self-mythologizingly self-indulgent — as much of a heroic origins…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for NPR (1,713) on 12 Aug 2015

If any film should be forgiven its excesses, it's Straight Outta Compton, which is about the clashes and camaraderie among men whose unruliness…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 12 Aug 2015

Once the group as we originally know it from the movie's story dissolves, so too does the movie's narrative cohesion and, surprisingly,…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 12 Aug 2015

An incredibly ambitious musical biopic that illustrates how a hip hop group sparked a revolution, self-destructed, then regained its original bond…

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By Bruce Kirkland (531) for Toronto Sun (419) on 12 Aug 2015

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By Bill Gibron (1,013) for Film Racket (579) on 12 Aug 2015

Straight Outta Compton is not just one of the best movies about the music business ever made, but it's the drama about racism that a modern…

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By Greg Maki (546) for Star-Democrat (Easton, MD) (546) on 12 Aug 2015

F. Gary Gray's film detailing the rise and splintering of the hugely influential rap group N.W.A. is very nearly a masterpiece…

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By Marc Savlov (2,019) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 12 Aug 2015

Buoyed by a soundtrack that’ll have fortysomethings cracking open 40-ounces and recalling a marginally simpler, if still chaotic, time in…

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By Calum Marsh (242) for National Post (1,405) on 12 Aug 2015

A certain tendency toward myth-making is inherent in the biopic style…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 12 Aug 2015

There’s way too much inside-baseball money talk here, when a simpler plot—one about a band whose apocalyptic vision comes to pass—would…

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By Chris Vognar (609) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 12 Aug 2015

Straight Outta Compton manages to keep its sharp teeth despite its adherence to form…

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By Ethan Alter (997) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 12 Aug 2015

A smorgasbord of a musical biopic in which the strength of the individual parts compensates for the flaws of the whole…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 12 Aug 2015

One can argue that this story might have been told with greater punch, more detail and less reliance on the tropes of the genre, but it's still…

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By Tom Horgen (28) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 12 Aug 2015

In the small pool of big-budget hip-hop biopics, Straight Outta Compton is near the top…

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By Kevin C. Johnson (66) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 12 Aug 2015

Credit goes to smart casting of unknowns in the leads, who click uniformly; a packed script that manages not to feel overly long and social…

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By Devin Faraci (498) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 12 Aug 2015

A fierce and awesome movie that morphs into a standard biopic…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for New York Times (5,786) on 12 Aug 2015

The partying is as bland as any all-purpose music video and feels more like another script signpost (and audience-pandering) than a serious…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 12 Aug 2015

Straight Outta Compton reminds viewers not only who N.W.A. were and what they meant, but also why they mattered — and still do…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 12 Aug 2015

When the songs themselves take center stage the movie works. What remains in the wings constitutes another, fuller story…

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By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 12 Aug 2015

There's some grit at the get-go, and some thrill at witnessing the development of a musical form…

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