
Straight Outta Compton movie review: men’s anger, but only when it makes them righteous
The seething rage radiating from the screen elevates this above similar movies. But that rage is truncated in ways that are hard to ignore.
handcrafted film criticism by maryann johanson | since 1997
The seething rage radiating from the screen elevates this above similar movies. But that rage is truncated in ways that are hard to ignore.
Quietly charming and coarsely handsome, a sensitively observed story about young people in love seen through a keen eye for the unglamorous side of New York City that we don’t often see on film these days…