Lady Sings the Blues

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Kenya A classic movie with Diana Ross. She was phenomenal as this was her first acting gig. My all time favorite movie. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/21/22 Full Review Alec B Ross, who you might think would be the weak link here, does give a good performance. She captures a kind of desperate sadness within Holiday that feels honest. It is a shame that the movie is just a cliched biopic that can't think of much to say about Holiday and never really earns Ross' work here. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/10/24 Full Review S R An important story, but just average in the making / telling. Not one I plan to see again. Saw on TCM. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 05/09/23 Full Review Audience Member Nothing to do with Billie Holiday. Not even a good period piece. Diana Ross just never gets over herself. Way too Hollywood fake glamour. Supporting cast did OK with crummy script. Billy Dee Williams band Richard Pryor, cant go wrong. Dont compare to "Ray.". Ironically I am watching " Stormy Weather" with Lena Horne. She did the most memorable song at a window the carpenters dragged in and nobody noticed Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member Ross, who you might think would be the weak link here, does give a good performance. She captures a kind of desperate sadness within Holiday that feels honest. It is a shame that the movie is just a cliched biopic that can't think of much to say about Holiday and never really earns Ross' work here. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review dave s It's not as though Lady Sings the Blues is a bad film, because it's not. Detailing the life of jazz singer Billie Holiday, it's a periodically engaging biopic that never veers too far from the biopic formula. Featuring a solid performance from Diana Ross as the tragic subject, the movie is filled with great music, as would be expected. Where the film may fall short is the bloated running time, which feels even longer as the result of some unnecessarily long scenes (for example, the Piano Man's final scene with Billie seems to go on forever) and some scenes that just feel like they go on forever (pretty much all of the schmaltzy scenes where Billie and Louis converse, with the overwrought sound of violins weeping in the background). In Lady Sings the Blues, the good outweighs the bad, but not by much. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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