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By Austin Trunick (219) for Under the Radar (636) on 07 Jul 2015

Garbus' revealing documentary not only tracks the musician's life and rise to stardom, but pulls into focus many of the sad reasons behind…

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By Joel R (315) on 07 Jul 2015

I was mesmerized by this documentary. I expected a typical biographical accounting of her life…

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By Matthew S (2,399) on 06 Jul 2015

Just the idea/concept of creating a documentary about the life of Simone seems such an arduous task that I was not expecting to learn anything…

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By Chandra L (62) on 05 Jul 2015

More about her personal life than her career, really good documentary…

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By Gustavo T (55) on 05 Jul 2015

Really amazing story. Second best documentary on a musician of 2015…

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By Melanie S (250) on 04 Jul 2015

Thus is both a triumphant and tragic documentary about the incomparable Nina Simone; a story that skims the surface of a brilliant woman with…

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Review of What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015)

By Melica N (2) on 03 Jul 2015

Amazing. I love Nina Simone even more now. The learn so much about her and her life…

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By Andrew Chan (4) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 30 Jun 2015

It's disappointing to watch the film fall into Behind the Music conventionality, employing a perfunctory alternation of talking heads and archival…

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By David M (3,086) on 30 Jun 2015

Nina Simone is a national treasure…

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Review of What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015)

By Jackie M (340) on 28 Jun 2015

One of the best music docs I have ever seen, It helps that the subject is such a talented, interesting, complicated and just plain fascinating…

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By Dillinger P (324) on 28 Jun 2015

It's risky business, creating a 75% archival footage documentary on a world renowned and iconic figure like Nina Simone, she was more than…

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By Hector E (41) on 27 Jun 2015

I didn't know anything about Nina Simone outside of her two most famous (and polar opposite) songs: My Baby Just Cares for Me and Mississippi…

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By Lowbrowcinema (138) on 26 Jun 2015

WHAT HAPPENED, MISS SIMONE? is that rare documentary which manages to be both personal and political…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 25 Jun 2015

I think the film overreaches in casting Simone as a standard-bearer against racism and sexism, but it’s filled with mesmerizing clips from…

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By Indiefilmlover (38) on 25 Jun 2015

An intimidate portrait of the enigmatic Nina Simone…

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By Odie Henderson (402) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 25 Jun 2015

The timeliness of What Happened, Miss Simone? cannot be understated. It's essential viewing in these times…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 24 Jun 2015

[An] impressive and deeply felt documentary…

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By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Jun 2015

Garbus's film is a portrait of a soul torn apart by forces beyond it and within it…

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By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 24 Jun 2015

What Happened features some of the best concert footage and musical performances in recent music doc memory, even if it never quite answers…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 23 Jun 2015

An excellently clear-eyed primer on the woman whose talent carried her from an impoverished childhood in Tryon, N.C., to the world’s most…

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