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90One of the better documentaries I'd seen in years -- it plays like a suspense thriller because that's exactly what it is.
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88Compulsively watchable and endlessly inventive as it transforms Broomfield's limited materials into a compelling argument.
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83At best, a half-finished puzzle, but Broomfield leaves you with questions that few investigators have even dared to ask.
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80A wily and dogged inquisitor, Broomfield cajoles and confronts a variety of witnesses, charting a web of intrigue that also involved the LAPD, the FBI, and assorted gangbangers and rogue cops.
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75Those not well versed in the rap music world may be a little lost at times, but you don't need to know your Ice-T's from your Cool-J's to realize that as far as these shootings are concerned, something is rotten in the state of California.
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75Broomfield conducts riveting interviews with a former LAPD officer, Biggie's fiercely protective mother and assorted hangers-on, but the actual thrust of his evidence seems almost irrelevant.
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Has been called an exploitation of a tragedy, but in fact it's an expose of tragic exploitation.
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70Perhaps that's what makes thus such a compelling documentary; it will grip even viewers who aren't interested in rap, as it cuts to the heart of American society in an unnerving way.
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70Deceptively rambling, shrewdly ragtag documentary.
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70Whether or not you buy Mr. Broomfield's findings, the film acquires an undeniable entertainment value as the slight, pale Mr. Broomfield continues to force himself on people and into situations that would make lesser men run for cover.
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60This is Oliver Stone country, but Broomfield's self-effacing affect is more Woody Allen,
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50Broomfield's shaggy p.o.v. always troubles -- blurring the lines between tabloid and serious reportage, morbid curiosity and hard facts, objectivity and amusing, quasi-amateur stuntsmanship.
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Tends to speculation, conspiracy theories or, at best, circumstantial evidence.
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40Overall, the film is occasionally interesting but essentially unpersuasive, a footnote to a still evolving story.
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40It's no exaggeration to say that roughly half of the interviews in Biggie and Tupac are worthless, offering no new information or insights about the rappers or their deaths.
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12This time out, Broomfield comes up with maybe enough halfway decent material for a 10-minute segment on a second-rate tabloid TV show.
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