By the time Whitney Elizabeth Houston was 15, she was singing background vocals for Chaka Khan, Lou Rawls, and Jermaine Jackson. In 1983 Whitney signed a worldwide recording contract with Clive Davis's Arista Records. However her success came with its fair share of drug use, love affairs, and scandals.... (Full plot summary below)
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By the time Whitney Elizabeth Houston was 15, she was singing background vocals for Chaka Khan, Lou Rawls, and Jermaine Jackson. In 1983 Whitney signed a worldwide recording contract with Clive Davis's Arista Records. However her success came with its fair share of drug use, love affairs, and scandals.
Leave your thoughts about Whitney: Can I Be Me.
| Daily Express (UK)Allan HunterA sad film in many ways but when Whitney sings you only remember the good times. |
| The UndefeatedSoraya Nadia McDonaldWhitney lets us know: The demand for sanitized, postracial soothsaying from black stars as the price for success is more than detrimental. It will slowly, softly kill you. |
| Graffiti With PunctuationBlake HowardA once in a generation voice. It's almost shocking to consider that despite Houston's rise to a stratospheric level of fame in the 80/90s that by the time of her death, she'd retreated into obscurity. Broomfield and Dolezal attempt to resurrect her. |
| Screen-SpaceSimon Foster[An] achingly emotional testament to one of the greatest singers and most-troubled public figures that popular entertainment has ever known. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperFor all the beautiful and lovely music Whitney Houston gave us, for all those soaring notes she hit, the documentary Whitney. Can I Be Me is a nearly joyless and melancholy piece of work. Because we know how it ends. |
| Irish TimesTara BradyCar-crash gawpers may quibble that Broomfield has (respectfully) avoided footage of the final years, but this remains a quietly devastating portrait of a magnificently loud talent. |
| London Evening StandardCharlotte O'SullivanYou get the sense of a woman battling so hard to impress white America that her moral compass has gone haywire. |
| Sunday Independent (Ireland)Aine O'ConnorA must for fans, non-fans will enjoy too. |
| Radio TimesTerry StauntonThe singer comes across as hugely likeable and extraordinarily funny, but insecurities rooted in childhood constantly lead to bad choices, catalogued without sensationalist gimmicks by a film-maker renowned for level-headed journalistic storytelling. |
| The Big IssueEdward LawrensonThis sensitive, not entirely uncritical, documentary grows ever more poignant as you realise Houston was never able to find a satisfactory answer to that question [in the title], not least for herself. |
