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- 1987
- PG-13
- Cineplex Odeon Films
- 1 h 25 m
- 1987
- PG-13
- Cineplex Odeon Films
- 1 h 25 m
Summary A concert film with theatrical staging, featuring live performances by Prince and his band.
Directed By: Prince, David Hogan, Albert Magnoli
- 1987
- PG-13
- Cineplex Odeon Films
- 1 h 25 m
- 1987
- PG-13
- Cineplex Odeon Films
- 1 h 25 m
Sign 'o' the Times
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Summary A concert film with theatrical staging, featuring live performances by Prince and his band.
Directed By: Prince, David Hogan, Albert Magnoli
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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79% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
21% Mixed
3 Reviews
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
72
79% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
21% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
A svelte jolt of everything that captures Prince at his most dazzling: the singing, the dancing, the multi-instrumental talent, the rapport with his band and those bolero-chic outfits.
After his hit-and-miss starring role in Purple Rain and the so-bad-it's-funny Under the Cherry Moon, Prince has come into his own as a film maker by doing what he does best: putting his consummate musical and performance talents into a vehicle that smokes from wire-to-wire. [29 Dec 1987, p.3D]
Musically, it's a matter of opinion, but from the sparse funk of the title tune to the bebop blow-out around Charlie Parker's Now's the Time, this guiltless grooving in Eden fizzes with brilliantly choreographed wit and invention.
Though it never quite transcends its status as a simple concert film, Prince's Sign o' the Times gives far greater range to his talent than his widely successful movie debut, the 1984 Purple Rain. [20 Nov 1987, p.A]
In Purple Rain, Prince found an answer in his own life, and provided intercuts to an autobiographical story. This time, he lets the music simply speak for itself. It's fun as far as it goes, but Purple Rain, of course, went further.
As a concert film, judged from the music, Sign O' the Times is near the top. As a movie -- carrying inside it the embryo of other movies -- it's not fully satisfying. But you sense it could be; however he stumbles, Prince gives you the impression he'll always, catlike, leap back. [20 Nov 1987, p.4]
Unfortunately, it only hints at the real fire the purple one brings to his shows.
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Production Company
Cineplex Odeon Films,
Paisley Park Films,
Purple Films
Release Date Nov 20, 1987
Duration 1 h 25 m
Rating PG-13
Genres
Tagline If you go to only one concert this year... the Prince movie is the one!
Awards
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
