‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody’ Reviews: Critics Split on ‘Uneven’ Whitney Houston Biopic
“Naomi Ackie’s performance shines above everything else.”
“Naomi Ackie’s performance shines above everything else.”
“You wonder why they felt the need to cover such a broad expanse of her life,” one critic says.
“In short, it’s nuts,” one critic wrote about the new Netflix movie.
“It is a transcendent film,” one critic writes.
The comedy made $13.7 million at the weekend box office.
One reviewer calls the film “a blown-up version of a bad sitcom.”
“BlacKkKlansman is the perfect movie for the perfect time.”
“The Equalizer should be locked in a room with The Terminator.”
“It’s all the Whitney Houston documentary you’ll ever need.”
While some reviewers found the film funny, others thought it should have gone straight to DVD.