Review of Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022) by David Ehrlich for IndieWire — 21 Dec 2022
A music biopic so broad and hacky it makes “Jersey Boys” seem like “All that Jazz,” Kasi Lemmons’ well-acted but laughably trite Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody is an anonymous portrait of a singular artist — a by-the-numbers “Behind the Music” episode that needs 146 minutes to say almost nothing about a once-in-a-lifetime voice.
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This review of Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022) was written by David Ehrlich and published by IndieWire on 21 Dec 2022.
Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody has generally received mixed reviews.
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