
The story of the late jazz musician and classical pianist Nina Simone, including her rise to fame and relationship with her manager Clifton Henderson.... (Full plot summary below)
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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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| Detroit NewsAdam GrahamWriter-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. |
| Entertainment WeeklyChristian HolubSaldana (Avatar, Guardians of the Galaxy) is an accomplished and bankable actress, but she doesn’t look much like Simone. That has led to several complaints, including from the Simone estate. |
| Lainey GossipSarah MarrsNina feels like a movie made by people who fundamentally misunderstood Nina Simone. It conclusively proves that representation behind the camera is as important as representation on screen. |
| UproxxJen ChaneyIt's difficult to watch Nina and not compare it to What Happened, Miss Simone?... because the non-fiction version paints a more complete, nuanced portrait of a complicated woman. |
| BET.comClay CaneAny solid acting moments from Saldana or David Oyelowo are ruined whenever a blotchy, darkened, clay-ish face pops on screen. Zoe Saldana looks more like an X-Men character than the High Priestess of Soul. |
| National Newspaper Publishers Association Dwight BrownThis 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. |
| Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternIt is shabby, as well as disjointed, superficial and just plain dull, a dislikable rendering of a tumultuous life. |
| Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman[Zoe Saldana] acts with the right fire and sings beautifully and evocatively. |
| indieWireDavid EhrlichSaldana delivers her distractingly affected performance with greater conviction than most could muster under these circumstances, but no amount of ferocity can disguise the discrepancy between the 37-year-old actress (33 at the time of filming) and the 62-year-old woman she's playing. |
| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfA 90-minute-long character assassination, transforming a music legend into a Hanna-Barbera cartoon. |