A Rapper’s Tale, Larger Than Life
di A. O. Scott The New York Times
Anyone looking for a dispassionate, evenhanded account of the life of Biggie Smalls, the Brooklyn-born rapper who was murdered in 1997 at the age of 24, will be disappointed, perhaps even dismayed, by “Notorious.” But why would anyone be looking for such a thing in the first place?
The movie, directed by George Tillman Jr. from a script by Reggie Rock Bythewood and Cheo Hodari Coker, may not be an authorized biography, but it is if anything less critical, less ambivalent, than some of Biggie’s own semi-autobiographical lyrics. [...]
di A. O. Scott, articolo completo (5800 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 16 gennaio 2009