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- 2022
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- 2022
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- Netflix
- 2 h 7 m
Summary Tyler Perry's tale of forbidden love and family drama unravels 40 years of secrets and lies against a soundtrack of juke joint blues in the Deep South. [Netflix]
Directed By: Tyler Perry
Written By: Tyler Perry
- 2022
- R
- Netflix
- 2 h 7 m
- 2022
- R
- Netflix
- 2 h 7 m
A Jazzman's Blues
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5.8
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Summary Tyler Perry's tale of forbidden love and family drama unravels 40 years of secrets and lies against a soundtrack of juke joint blues in the Deep South. [Netflix]
Directed By: Tyler Perry
Written By: Tyler Perry
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
62
54% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
31% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
15% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
This is an ambitious, handsome-looking picture that strives to capture the essence of life in the deep South in the mid-20th century in a way that makes movie sense, without excessively romanticizing it.
A Jazzman’s Blues proves that when Perry applies himself in a particular fashion, his work can stand entirely on its own.
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Based on 9 User Ratings
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A Jazzman’s Blues overflows with melodrama, yet it isn’t staged broadly. It’s closer to Perry’s version of a Douglas Sirk film, one that takes a romance and heightens it until the complications are growing and twisting around it like vines.
A Jazzman’s Blues is a passion project that climbs close to the edge of becoming self-indulgent fodder. The film is never as deep as it thinks it is. Nor is it terribly original either. But for Perry, this is a massive change. And while you shouldn’t praise a director for merely trying. Perry does more than try with “A Jazzman’s Blues.” He finally shows that he’s not a one-trick pony.
At its core, A Jazzman’s Blues is a soap opera full of shocking secrets, emotional confrontations, and one exceedingly satisfying slap.The mystery aspects are thin; anyone with passing knowledge of Black American history can infer early on who was killed, why, and by whom.
Notwithstanding the embellishments, this undoubtedly remains a Tyler Perry film — occasionally for better, but often for worse.
Every narrative twist is telegraphed, every dramatic choice is expected, every character is one-dimensional, and every scene of heightened emotion is built around tin-ear dialogue.
Production Company
Tyler Perry Studios
Release Date Sep 16, 2022
Duration 2 h 7 m
Rating R
Tagline Never Stop Loving
Awards
Image Awards (NAACP)
• 4 Nominations
Black Reel Awards
• 2 Nominations
Guild of Music Supervisors Awards
• 2 Nominations
