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Nina
Directed by
Cynthia Mort
Not Rated
2016
90m
Drama
,
Biography
,
and more
5.4
2%
25%
5.2
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The story of the late jazz musician and classical pianist Nina Simone, including her rise to fame and relationship with her manager Clifton Henderson.
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Cast of Nina
Zoe Saldaña
Nina Simone
David Oyelowo
Clifton Henderson
Mike Epps
Richard Pryor
Ella Thomas
Lorraine Hansberry
Ronald Guttman
Henri Edwards
Ella Joyce
Clifton's Mom
Keith David
Clifton's Father
Mary Pat Gleason
Ordlery Pat
Siena Goines
Heather
Kit Leonard Dennis
Lawyer
Yasmine Golchan
Dr. Cousier
Ken Davitian
Club Owner
Cynthia Mort
Director / Writer
Mihai Malaimare Jr.
Director Of Photography
Clinton Wayne
Makeup Effects Designer
Josh Rifkin
Editor
Mark Helfrich
Editor
Susan Littenberg
Editor
Eric Vetro
Vocal Coach
Nina Ratings & Reviews
National Newspaper Publishers Association
Dwight Brown
This film had a great opportunity to take a once-in-a-lifetime story about a troubled, legendary singer, and add insight. Nina, in the most frustrating way, bungles that mission.
The Playlist
Kimber Myers
An insult to the legacy of the High Priestess of Soul, those looking for a richer exploration of the woman, artist, activist and legend, are best served elsewhere.
Los Angeles Times
Katie Walsh
Never seems authentic or real, just a bizarrely staged re-creation.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
Respectfully factual in its over-all contours but sensational and sentimental nonetheless, the movie reduces Simone's life to clichés about hope; it replaces the creative drive with the commercial one, the artist with the celebrity.
Chicago Sun-Times
Miriam Di Nunzio
Saldana does a fine job of delivering the lyrics -- a daunting task for any actress required to step into those vocals, but fans of Simone will be aching for the real deal.
TIME Magazine
Stephanie Zacharek
A Nina Simone novice seeing this picture would have no idea who this complex, magnificent artist was, or why she mattered.
Associated Press
Jake Coyle
Why Mort, who wrote and directed the film, has chosen to focus on Simone's troubled 1990s period in France is anyone's guess.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
The word on this Nina Simone biopic has been so toxic for so long - it was filmed in 2012 but only released now - I was really hoping to find something good in it. No luck.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Dan DeLuca
A listless, oddly constructed tale that does a poor job of capturing Simone's star quality or indomitable racial pride ...
RogerEbert.com
Odie Henderson
You'll see some durable makeup in "Nina." What you won't see is any justification why this film should exist.
Detroit News
Adam Graham
Writer-director Cynthia Mort focuses on Simone's late-career relationship with her nurse-turned-manager, and isn't able to branch out and grasp the story of Simone's art or her impact.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
Ms. Mort's writing lacks psychological texture, and her direction generates little intensity, or even continuity.
New York Post
Sara Stewart
Writer-director Cynthia Mort seems entirely in over her head while attempting to flesh out this legendary, complicated, volatile artist.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Coming less than a year after What Happened, Miss Simone? the fiction film Nina may feel even shabbier than it is. And it is shabby, as well as disjointed, superficial and just plain dull, a dislikable rendering of a tumultuous life.
Dallas Morning News
Chris Vognar
Writer/director Cynthia Mort tells this story well enough, but we're still left wondering why she chose this story to begin with.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
"Nina" filters the singer's voice - and her life - through tinny-sounding speakers and an out-of-focus lens.
AV Club
Mike D'Angelo
Nina has been so thoroughly misconceived, on virtually every level, that the only less interesting portrait imaginable would be one that takes place entirely when Nina Simone was in utero.
Village Voice
Alan Scherstuhl
Nina's true, accidental subject quickly reveals itself as the irreducibility of Simone herself: Little of her genius and complexity have been squeezed into this film's familiar three-act structure of friendship and redemption.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
The film is committed to the sort of broad strokes that reduce a great artist's life to a spectacle of self-pity.
Entertainment Weekly
Christian Holub
Nina is a by-the-numbers musical biopic riddled with every conceivable cliché about "the tortured artist."
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