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Get on Up
Directed by
Tate Taylor
PG-13
2014
2h 19m
Drama
,
Biography
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6.9
80%
68%
6.8
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A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
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Cast of Get on Up
Chadwick Boseman
James Brown
Nelsan Ellis
Bobby Byrd
Dan Aykroyd
Ben Bart
Viola Davis
Susie Brown
Lennie James
Joe Brown
Fred Melamed
Syd Nathan
Jill Scott
DeeDee Brown
Octavia Spencer
Aunt Honey
Nick Eversman
Mick Jagger
Tika Sumpter
Yvonne Fair
James DuMont
Corporal Dooley
Billy Slaughter
Pool Cleaner
Ritchie Montgomery
Warden
Craig Robinson
Maceo Parker
Brandon Mychal Smith
Little Richard
Aloe Blacc
Nafloyd Scott
Josh Hopkins
Ralph Bass
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor
Vicki Anderson
Tariq Trotter
Pee Wee Ellis
Keith D. Robinson
Baby Roy
Get on Up Ratings & Reviews
National Newspaper Publishers Association
Dwight Brown
Warts and all, in fits and starts, finally the Hardest Working Man in Show Business gets his story told.
The New Yorker
David Denby
Chadwick Boseman gives a startling and galvanic performance.
The Playlist
Kimber Myers
Despite problems, "Get on Up" is a crowd pleaser of a film, whose powerful musical moments can overshadow any smaller issues within the film.
ChristyLemire.com
Christy Lemire
In Boseman's hands - and his feet, and his entire body, for that matter - he demands and earns our attention.
IndieWire
Eric Kohn
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.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
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.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
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.
RogerEbert.com
Odie Henderson
It just wants to play some of the big hits you love while ticking off a checklist of standard biopic milestones.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Bilge Ebiri
Tate Taylor's film cares less about narrative clarity and more about portraying a life lived between the extremes of sin and grace, between the abject and the sublime. It's lively, stylized, and genuinely surprising.
Detroit News
Adam Graham
Boseman is at times mesmerizing, living up to the gargantuan task of playing the American soul legend. If only the movie were as good as he is.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Dan DeLuca
A well-acted entertainment that's highly respectful of the story it has to tell. It's disjointed but fun to watch.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
Boseman is an actor of exceptional ability and magnetism, and he works as hard as the man he is playing to convey the power of Brown's stage presence.
leonardmaltin.com
Leonard Maltin
'Get On Up' has Chadwick Boseman going for it, who is thoroughly convincing as the Godfather of Soul
Newsday
Rafer Guzman
"Get on Up" turns Brown's life into an even bigger mess.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
"Get on Up" is more frustrating than fulfilling, a disjointed film that suffers from having a more ambitious plan than it's got the ability to execute.
Dallas Morning News
Chris Vognar
It avoids the predictable narrative arc - hardscrabble youth, rise to fame, descent into drugs, etc. - by scrambling the Brown chronology and shooting for a more thematic organizing structure marked by smart transitions.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Unexpectedly buoyant; it skims over a life as if tunefully improvising, touching just the right note here and there.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
A messy, qualified triumph that even at 138 minutes makes an incomplete case for Brown's meaning to American life and culture, but a triumph nevertheless.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Before and after everything else, "Get On Up" is about the transformative power of performance.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
Straightforward but highly entertaining.
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Get On Up: Chadwick Boseman On Taking The Part
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Get On Up: Dan Aykroyd On How He Knew James Brown
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Get On Up: Viola Davis On Becoming Involved With The Film
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