Nina
The documentary depicts the life of the late jazz musician and classical pianist Nina Simone including her rise to fame and relationship with her manager Clifton Henderson, who helps her rediscover her love for music.
12 June 1954, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1 April 1976, Oxford, England, UK
30 August 1956, Israel
30 April 1968, Houston, Texas, USA
19 June 1953, Los Angeles, California, USA
19 November 1977
31 May 1968
18 November 1970, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
25 September 1958, Encino, California, USA
20 April 1983, Brooklyn, New York, USA
27 November 1968, Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
14 August 1984, Hampton, Virginia, USA
26 November 1948, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
28 March 1969, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
April 29, 2016
While Saldana gives her very best in trying to embody the essence of Miss Simone with equal support from co-star David Oyelowo, both are confined to a weak script and for Saldana, probably the worst makeup job she's had on the big screen.
April 25, 2016
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.
April 22, 2016
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.
April 28, 2016
All in all, Nina is watchable in and of itself, but I can't recommend your paying full price for it, especially if you're a Nina Simone devotee.
May 20, 2016
If this is a greatest hits album, Nina picks the least-accessible songs and then puts them all in the wrong order.
May 05, 2016
Never seems authentic or real, just a bizarrely staged re-creation.
April 22, 2016
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.
May 18, 2016
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.
April 22, 2016
Zoe Saldana's woeful casting is just one of a myriad of reasons to despise Nina, as its plot and characterization fail to glean any insight into the iconic musician and Civil Rights activist.
April 22, 2016
Why Mort, who wrote and directed the film, has chosen to focus on Simone's troubled 1990s period in France is anyone's guess.
April 27, 2016
A 90-minute-long character assassination, transforming a music legend into a Hanna-Barbera cartoon.
April 22, 2016
A Nina Simone novice seeing this picture would have no idea who this complex, magnificent artist was, or why she mattered.
