Marley Reviews

Movie Reviews

• what's shocking about Marley is how little film exists of the Wailers in performance

  by Steven Rea [Philadelphia Inquirer ]

• thoroughly researched and packed with phenomenal archival footage

  by Melissa Anderson [Village Voice ]

• this film is long. But it grabs one's senses and won't let go

  by Steve Morse [Boston Globe ]

• this film has no great revelations and will start no scandals - if indeed there are any

  by Roger Ebert [Chicago Sun-Times ]

• the musical and documentary vibes are very, very good

  by Michael Phillips [Chicago Tribune ]

• the film's 144-minute running time gives a sense that the filmmaker couldn't let a single frame fall to the cutting room floo

  by Joe Morgenstern [Wall Street Journal ]

• the film is far from a hagiography; and while stocked with musical sequences, it is not a concert film

  by Stephen Holden [New York Times ]

• the film had a key advantage

  by Jim Farber [New York Daily News ]

• stylistically unremarkable, playing it safe with structure, the film is still quietly revelatory

  by Ian Buckwalter [NPR ]

• its wonderful performance footage leave you with most of all is the joy the man took in the music that set him free and enchanted the world

  by Kenneth Turan [Los Angeles Times ]

• it is gripping from the start, not just because of the quality of the music, but because of Marley's magnetic

  by Bill Goodykoontz [Arizona Republic ]

• chronologically organized and voiceover-free

  by Dana Stevens [Slate ]

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