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By Ben Kenigsberg (863) for New York Times (5,786) on 16 Aug 2017

A surprisingly conventional, dutifully respectful behind-the-scenes portrait of Whitney Houston’s rise and struggles with fame and drugs…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 16 Aug 2017

Whitney's story makes for strong and compelling viewing even though it has something of a cobbled together feel to it…

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By April Wolfe (199) for Village Voice (8,525) on 14 Aug 2017

We're fortunate to witness such impassioned consideration of Houston's art, career and life from the people who actually knew her…

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By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 14 Aug 2017

We’re fortunate to witness such impassioned consideration of Houston’s art, career, and life from the people who actually knew her…

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By Tal Rosenberg (16) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Aug 2017

What Whitney insinuates is that Houston's downfall and death aren't so much attributable to drug addiction as they are to her inability to…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 09 Aug 2017

For all the beautiful and lovely music Whitney Houston gave us, for all those soaring notes she hit, the documentary Whitney…

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By Glenn Dunks (375) for Film Experience (395) on 19 Jul 2017

[It's] the lapses in simple documentary common sense that make this film feel like one more indignity to her legacy…

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By Alistair Ryder (351) for Film Inquiry (1,269) on 09 Jul 2017

Whitney: Can I Be Me is the best kind of music documentary…

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By Susan W (125) on 30 Jun 2017

Interesting thoughtful and sad documentary. Worth seeing…

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By Lauren Carroll Harris (50) for Junkee (216) on 29 Jun 2017

What lifts it from the usual half-hagiography/half-takedown, tell-all-doco-made-from-a-distance is its analysis of racism within the US music…

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By Tara Brady (805) for Irish Times (1,391) on 28 Jun 2017

Car-crash gawpers may quibble that Broomfield has (respectfully) avoided footage of the final years, but this remains a quietly devastating…

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By Ben Nicholson (124) for CineVue (2,163) on 26 Jun 2017

A compelling re-telling of the singer's story…

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By Jim Schembri (1,298) for 3AW (1,025) on 25 Jun 2017

Far from the tabloid profile of a celebrity trainwreck one might have expected from [Nick} Broomfield, he takes care to piece together the…

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By Meirion H (27) on 24 Jun 2017

Another of those passable but uninspired documentaries that feel more like a reportage, as they set out to tell us about someone's life and…

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By Stephen Porzio (31) for Film Ireland Magazine (354) on 21 Jun 2017

An appropriately tragic yet surprisingly eye-opening documentary on the rise and fall of singer and actress Whitney Houston…

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By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 18 Jun 2017

The film works best as a study of celebrity self-delusion, with the singer glossing over reality in each media appearance, but Broomfield is…

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By Sarah Ward (538) for ArtsHub (131) on 18 Jun 2017

It's not the details already splashed across the tabloids with frequency that prove informative, but glimpsing the pain lingering behind the…

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By Aine O'connor (240) for Sunday Independent (Ireland) (504) on 18 Jun 2017

A must for fans, non-fans will enjoy too…

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By Edward Porter (366) for Sunday Times (UK) (753) on 18 Jun 2017

When it comes to telling us who Whitney really was, however, the film only goes so far. [Although] for sure, it's absorbing…

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By Charlotte O'sullivan (637) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 17 Jun 2017

You get the sense of a woman battling so hard to impress white America that her moral compass has gone haywire…

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