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By Donald Clarke (1,051) for Irish Times (1,391) on 08 Jul 2018

Whitney will be filed under music documentaries but it is no more about music than it is about carpentry or mathematics…

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By Tom Shone (158) for Sunday Times (UK) (753) on 08 Jul 2018

The revelation comes late in the doc, a sign of good showmanship, even if it lays blame for her death rather too pointedly at the feet of one person…

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By Sean P. Means (2,056) for The Movie Cricket (81) on 08 Jul 2018

Alas, Whitney leaves viewers with as many questions as answers, which may be exactly how the image-conscious Whitney Houston would have wanted it…

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By Matthew Bond (673) for The Mail on Sunday (UK) (704) on 08 Jul 2018

Whitney is a well-assembled documentary about the late singer Whitney Houston, but tells us little that Nick Broomfield's Whitney: Can I Be…

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By Michael Schulman (2) for New Yorker (1,403) on 08 Jul 2018

Macdonald makes artful use of jarring, subversive cuts to highlight the contradictions in Houston's career…

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By Andy Lea (545) for Daily Express (UK) (2,141) on 07 Jul 2018

Macdonald doesn't let the singer's demons completely overshadow her talent…

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By Mark Kermode (1,002) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 07 Jul 2018

By jarringly intercutting news footage with deconstructed images (visual and aural) of a supposedly poptastic life, Macdonald creates a vivid…

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By Carlos Aguilar (278) for TheWrap (3,203) on 06 Jul 2018

Whitney is at its most powerful when it focuses on reminding us what we all lost, because the more you think about how outstanding her gift…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 06 Jul 2018

Houston was a real mess, to be sure — probably abused as a child, certainly abused as a wife, ill-used by her crooked Dad, not saved by friends,…

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By Susan Granger (2,214) for SSG Syndicate (1,551) on 05 Jul 2018

Sorrowful addition to what we already know with one scandalous revelation...Her music endures…

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By Todd Jorgenson (1,852) for Cinemalogue (704) on 05 Jul 2018

Within its mostly straightforward chronology, the film assembles a well-researched compilation of interviews and archival footage…

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By Jeff Simon (157) for Buffalo News (278) on 05 Jul 2018

It's a harrowing story but, by the time it's over, they've succeeded enough to move you profoundly…

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By Michael Bonner (121) for Uncut Magazine [UK] (201) on 05 Jul 2018

While it is no Amy, it does at least capture something of Asif Kapadia's film: the fury of public judgment that turns to pity far too late in the day…

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By James Verniere (1,180) for Boston Herald (1,433) on 05 Jul 2018

Kevin Macdonald of Touching the Void takes a hard look at meteoric rise and stunning fall of super-talented music icon…

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By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 05 Jul 2018

Macdonald has managed to have his cake and eat it in the sense that he talks to Cissy and Bobby Brown and Whitney's brothers without allowing…

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By Josh Terry (603) for Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (1) on 05 Jul 2018

Some audiences may also be frustrated by its tendency to focus on the seedy underbelly of Houston's story rather than celebrate her music,…

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By Rich Juzwiak (23) for The Muse/Jezebel (96) on 05 Jul 2018

As a nearly lifelong fan of Houston, I've never had a less enjoyable time thinking about her than I did for the two hours I spent screening this film…

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By John Urbancich (394) for Your Movies (cleveland.com) (472) on 05 Jul 2018

Certainly Houston fans can and will decide for themselves what to believe from whom in sorting out Macdonald's wide assortment of intimate…

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By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for PopMatters (2,617) on 05 Jul 2018

offers a complex and nuanced look at a great talent who left us much too soon…

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By Scott Marks (172) for San Diego Reader (713) on 05 Jul 2018

For much of its two-hour running time, we watch the life slowly being sucked out of a legend; the last thirty-minutes are consumed by ineffability…

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