the kind of movie that can sweep you up in its thrall one moment and then leave you scratching your head the next. It's hugely entertaining and occasionally maddening
a vibrant, glowingly handsome film even when it's focusing a bit too hard on the factual and temporal milestones of the band's later career in its third act
a feast for hip-hop connoisseurs and novices alike as it charts the West Coast rap superstars' meteoric rise, fractious in-fighting and discovery that the music business can be as savage as the inner-city streets