Purple Rain

  • 1984


MOVIE IS cinematic enduring musical mystifying serious
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Positive Reviews 12
Negative reviews 6
Average Rating 3.1/5
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2.0
For Prince fans, this movie will be a must for videocassette purchase, but even they will have to deal with the sexist way women are treated by all th .. Tv Guide
4.4
Unlike A Hard Days Night or the Elvis movies, its deadly serious in its themes of failure, violence and family ties.Yet it can be passionate and movin .. Combust Ible Celluloid
1.0
The project would have been much more palatable as a TV special; as it stands, its just another symptom of the American cinemas addiction to facile my .. Chicago Reader
3.0
Review Our Score by John Ferguson This was the first and easily the best of pint sized rock star Princes forays into film. Radio Times
4.2
There are a few sour, juvenile moments, but this is the rare pop movie that works the way a great rock & roll song does: It tells a simple, almost ele .. Ew
2.0
From Lets Go Crazy to When Doves Cry it gifts the film a power it doesnt deserve in filmmaking terms, as the short stuff with the licks from heaven, l .. Empire
2.0
This film serves as an enduring record of Princes talent and charisma, but only devoted fans will tolerate the disjointed, cliched narrative and inept .. Common Sense Media
3.8
Purple Rain Captures a Distinctly 80s Dream / Silly film still has style, fresh music PURPLE RAIN: 1984 musical drama. Sf Gate
3.8
Sad to say, revisionism has cast Purple Rain as falling short of Princes other cinematic efforts in qualities both genuine and illicit. Slant Magazine
3.5
Catharsis on the cheap; theres no reason to accept the pretense that the hero has suffered much and changed for the better unless youre predisposed to .. Washington Post
4.0
Well shot musical sequences, doubtless intended for additional musicvid cable and TV exposure, should enhance the pics drawing power. Variety
4.0
Magnoli may have something, because his performers all look good enough. Oregon Live
3.0
Purple Rain, which introduces Prince, the rising young rock performer, to theatrical films, is probably the flashiest album cover ever to be released .. Ny Times
4.0
Fast forward through the talking bits, and youve got one of the best concert DVDs ever filmed. Contact Music
5.0
Dont let its blockbuster success fool you: this is no bubble gum movie. Sbs
4.0
As a film, moreover, it is precisely the sort of vehicle one would have wished for Elvis in his Hollywood heyday: one which allows inept dialogue to b .. Bfi
0.5
Essentially Purple Rain is an insidious instance of the MTV ization of American movies.The musical numbers could easily exist as videos. People
2.5
Mostly, now, the songs mystifying title seems to allude to the inevitable tears of millions of music lovers.Mostly, now, it sounds like goodbye. Vue Weekly
1.0
A viewers response to the movie will probably relate directly to how much the viewer likes Prince to begin with. Omaha



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