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Tupac: Resurrection
Paramount Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for strong language and images of drugs, violence and sex
Starring
Tupac Shakur
Celebrating the life of Tupac Shakur, one off the top-selling hip-hop artists of all time, this film explores Shakur's life viscerally and dramatically through his own words and music. (Paramount Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Crime
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Documentary
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Drama
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Musical
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Lauren Lazin
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: June 15, 2004
Video: June 15, 2004
Theatrical: November 14, 2003
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| RUNNING TIME: |
90 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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88
Miami Herald
Evelyn Mcdonnell
Tupac Amaru Shakur is riveting in Tupac: Resurrection. The rapper is a compelling, charismatic hero: articulate, well-read, politically radical, and movie-star handsome to boot (he in fact starred in Poetic Justice and Juice). Make that, was riveting.

88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
As you listen to his uncanny narration of Tupac: Resurrection, which is stitched together from interviews, you realize you're not listening to the usual self-important vacancies from celebrity Q&As, but to spoken prose of a high order, in which analysis, memory and poetry come together seamlessly in sentences and paragraphs that sound as if they were written.

88
Premiere
Peter Debruge
Resurrection is a revelation.

83
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
It's no insult to Tupac to say that he was gangsta rap's greatest matinee idol, or that he lived the part only too well.

80
Film Threat
Eric Campos
Takes a look at the mans entire life and grants us an eye-opening look inside his brain. And now that the supposed be-all-end-all documentary has been made, lets let the guy get some f----- rest, okay?

80
The Hollywood Reporter
Sheri Linden
A poet warrior of the first order emerges in this riveting chronicle of the brief life and times of rap superstar Tupac Shakur.

80
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
The film leaves viewers with the sad, even tragic sense that his legacy would have been more profound had he gotten out of his own way.

80
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
The result isn't a fragmentary experience so much as an evocative collage.

80
Empire
Colin Kennedy
The results are highly subjective perhaps, but highly entertaining just the same and make an interesting companion piece to Nick Broomfields "Biggie And Tupac."

75
San Francisco Chronicle
James Sullivan
Charismatic to a fault, he had the look of a prince, with a genuine smile; long, feminine eyelashes; and a forbiddingly shaved cranium.

75
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Mostly, it's a story of violence, and it's superbly told.

75
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
The movie is like an extra-strength episode of MTV's ''Diary,'' which is like ''A&E Biography'' in the first person. Only ''Resurrection'' has a subject who's been dead for six years.

75
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
If you've never heard his voice, this is your chance, and you should take it.

75
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
Has many puff-piece moments to it and barely touches the controversy surrounding Tupac's death or that of rival hip-hop impresario Biggie Smalls. But it's engaging nonetheless.

75
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Lazin's remarkable achievement is to catch Tupac in the act of discovering himself. It's something to see.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Dan De Luca
It's a compelling piece of propaganda that argues for Shakur, whose 1996 murder in Las Vegas at age 25 remains unsolved, as a complicated individual, ambitious artist and magnetic personality by using the most persuasive weapons at its command: Tupac himself.

70
Variety
Dennis Harvey
Lazin has without question skillfully assembled an entertaining, strongly narrative nonfiction package.

70
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Especially good at showing how unnervingly, even heartbreakingly contradictory this man could be.

70
Village Voice
Laura Sinagra
Though the edits can be too living-room smooth, the passion and pathology on display transcend the Tabitha Soren overload.

70
Time
Richard Corliss
This fine, persuasive movie will have to serve as his testament, and it's a fitting one. How many men can say they wrote their own epitaphs in their own blood?

67
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Detailed but, ultimately, one-sided.

63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
It borders on deification. Yet Tupac: Resurrection is still a strong film, with some genuinely revealing insights into the life of its charismatic and paradoxical subject.

63
USA Today
Mike Clark
Though there must be a dozen U.S. presidents who have never had a documentary made about them, the late Tupac Shakur could rate his own section in video stores, placed between "music" and "action."

60
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
Ms. Lazin succeeds in conjuring his presence and in showing how smart and likable he could be, but the film's perspective is frustratingly limited.

60
Dallas Observer
Gregory Weinkauf
There's too much self-congratulatory showbiz overkill, and one is forced to wonder exactly who is getting paid, and how much, for leading this parade in his honor. Otherwise, this project makes it easy for anyone to understand the sanctified, semi-crazed star and the elements that created and destroyed him.

60
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
Doesn't pretend to be objective, and the film derives much of its power from the way it invites audiences to look at the rapper's life and times through his own soulful, animated eyes. It doesn't always succeed, and there are times when it feels terribly strained.

60
LA Weekly
Robert Abele
Needless to say, other voices -- any other voices -- would have given this legacy-obsessed film an invaluable context for such a fiery, scrutinized subject, but Tupac: Resurrection (with that fabulously unsubtle title) is intended to be more video bible than textbook.

60
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
Making Shakur the narrator works pretty well at first...But once he becomes an overnight star at age 20, his relentless self-articulation to Tabitha Soren begins to sound like the usual white noise of celebrity, his ideas about race and power in America potent but undeveloped.

50
New York Post
Megan Lehmann
Paints a vivid portrait of a compelling young man but, perhaps inevitably, goes overboard on the deification.

50
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
The irony is that Shakur's speaking voice is the film's greatest asset: His transformation from eager-to-please teenager to gangsta icon is vividly apparent in the sound bites.

50
Chicago Tribune
Kevin M. Williams
The biggest problem with the muddled mea culpa that is "Tupac" is that it is a kiss-up rather than a real examination of the rapper's life, so that anyone can speculate about what he might have become.

50
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
In the end, Tupac: Resurrection gives us too much raw Tupac, and yet somehow not enough. He remains a mystery -- one who still sells lots and lots of records.

42
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Bill White
MTV offers an airbrushed portrait that does nothing but perpetuate the myth of an "angelic" hoodlum.


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