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Get On Up
';s rise from extreme poverty, abandonment, abuse and jail
25 May 1970, Montgomery, Alabama, USA
1976, Madrid, Spain
20 June 1980, Queens, New York, USA
29 May 1989
25 October 1971, Chicago, Illinois, USA
3 October 1971, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
12 August 1965
May 29, 2016
As prodigious a talent as Prince was, he only altered the funk. The megalithic, trail-blazing talent of James Brown birthed it. And Chadwick Boseman nails the telling of it.
March 26, 2016
Boseman is the highlight, of course, and Taylor is smart to keep his leading man front-and-center in every, single scene.
April 12, 2016
Worthy of its subject and the dollars of music and film fans alike. As roundly entertaining as any biopic in recent memory.
March 21, 2017
Warts and all, in fits and starts, finally the Hardest Working Man in Show Business gets his story told.
April 18, 2016
Musically explosive, emotionally powerful and flat-out funky, Get on Up tells the outrageous life story of James Brown with a quirky brilliance worthy of the man at its center.
August 01, 2014
Though "Get On Up" never congeals into a satisfactory whole, its fragmentary portrait of the singer at the height of his fame - intercut with his troubled single-parent childhood - effectively shows his invasive power in popular culture.
August 17, 2016
The narrative is unsatisfying as it leaves lots of unanswered questions.
September 05, 2014
Chadwick Boseman gives a startling and galvanic performance.
August 01, 2014
More often, the film skates along the surface of Brown's contradictory character. Now if it skated like Brown's dance moves glided onstage, that really would have been something.
August 01, 2014
The storytelling is mostly linear, with some confusing back-and-forth in the chronology, and it's a long slog. The Brown who emerges from this film has a monstrous ego to go with his monster talent.
August 01, 2014
Somewhat sanitized and over-directed biopic saved by Boseman's electric performance.
August 06, 2014
In Boseman's hands - and his feet, and his entire body, for that matter - he demands and earns our attention.
