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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 22 Dec 2022

The actors and director Lemmons accomplish what the screenplay does only partially: make us believe the circumstances and the behavior…

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By Brittany Witherspoon (39) for Screen Rant (892) on 22 Dec 2022

I Wanna Dance with Somebody celebrates the star that captured the hearts of many fans around the world…

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By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 22 Dec 2022

I Wanna Dance with Somebody is a mighty testament to Houston’s catalog, the cathedral highs and sultry lows of her singular voice…

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By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Dec 2022

There are only clichés in this rise-and-fall material, with the sole distinctive wrinkle being the weight given to the rise versus the fall…

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By Chase Hutchinson (96) for Collider (1,032) on 22 Dec 2022

If written well and with the same care as its direction, this could have conveyed a sense of more genuine tragedy…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 21 Dec 2022

It’s easy enough to have problems with Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 21 Dec 2022

Houston basically gets the “Bohemian Rhapsody” treatment in that the film glosses over some of the darkest moments in her life…

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By Mark Kennedy (184) for The Associated Press (882) on 21 Dec 2022

Ackie’s performance is something to be cheered, reaching for the the kind of authenticity that Andra Day channeled when she also tackled…

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By Thomas Floyd (28) for Washington Post (9,851) on 21 Dec 2022

Despite clocking in at nearly 2½ hours, “I Wanna Dance” barely scratches the surface of its celestial subject and the figures in her orbit…

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By Jenny Nulf (101) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 21 Dec 2022

The film retroactively makes Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis look like a masterpiece for actually trying to be bedazzling and insane, because Whitney…

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Review of Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 21 Dec 2022

“I Wanna Dance with Somebody” is the kind of lavishly impassioned all-stops-out biopic you either give into or you don’t — and if you…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 21 Dec 2022

These movies are about reminding us how these songs made us feel when they were new, and how bowled over we were by the people who performed…

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By Simon Thompson (92) for The Playlist (3,871) on 21 Dec 2022

A respectful, fitting, and far more honest account of what the artist nicknamed “The Voice” gave us, it’s a biopic that is up there with…

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By David Fear (910) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 21 Dec 2022

There’s a constant feeling that a lot of hands were wrestling for the steering wheel of this biopic behind the scenes, with various parties…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 21 Dec 2022

Critics will sniff, as they invariably do, about the familiar conventions of the music biopic…

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By Carlos Aguilar (278) for TheWrap (3,203) on 21 Dec 2022

Across the eras, wardrobe changes, short-lived smiles and bitter tears, and eventually the addiction and scandals, Ackie’s portrayal of Houston…

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By Nick Levine (28) for NME (146) on 21 Dec 2022

I Wanna Dance with Somebody isn’t as illuminating as it could be, but it still feels like a fitting tribute to a brave and complicated artist…

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By Kelechi Ehenulo (4) for Empire (3,446) on 21 Dec 2022

In what could have been a definitive tribute to Whitney Houston’s career, surface-level execution means her story is not quite done justice…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 21 Dec 2022

It’s a muscular, heartfelt performance from Ackie…

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Review of Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022)

By Clint Worthington (295) for Consequence (296) on 21 Dec 2022

Houston’s magic as a performer was in her unpredictability; her voluminous range, the trailing vocal journey her famous runs took us on from…

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