Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool Reviews

Movie Reviews

• Stanley Nelson's superbly crafted documentary taps deep into the mystique of Miles Davis: his sound, stardom, and cult of personality

  by Owen Gleiberman [Variety ]

• Stanley Nelson's essential "Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool" lays out the complicated personal history and gamechanging musical revolutions of the jazz legend, and admirably tries to cover it all into a two-hour feature

  by Hank Shteamer [Rolling Stone ]

• decades-spanning, engrossing, hilarious, sad, and informative documentary to all music fans, whether you liked Miles Davis beforehand or not; "Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool" encapsulated his incredible career as much as a film can in two hours

  by Lorry Kikta [Film Threat ]

• an excellent primer from a dependable chronicler of African-American culture

  by John DeFore [The Hollywood Reporter ]

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