Whats Love Got to Do with It

  • 1993


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Positive Reviews 29
Negative reviews 1
Average Rating 4.0/5
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3.0
The movie is far from perfect it has the kind of clunky, episodic script that has bedeviled just about every musical biopic in history yet its driven .. EW
4.4
But it would be more accurate to say it was written in Tinas own blood. Rogerebert
4.0
This movie is fueled by dazzling performances from both Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne. Common Sense Media
4.5
A passionate personal and professional drama that hits both the high and low notes of an extraordinary career. Variety
4.5
Angela Bassett shakes her tail feather with aplomb and pins down the singers gestures with amazing precision. Top honours, however, belong to Fishburn .. Time Out
5.0
An exploration of Tina Turners life with the abusive Ike, its a sketchy but brutal bio pic with a weft of beatings and a warp of rhythm and blues.
5.0
A melodrama of starry eyed love and black eyed beatings, exhausting road tours and the singers even harder road to self realization, the movie contain ..
3.0
The movie makes us all want to stand up and cheer, Shine on, Tina.
4.0
Based on her autobiography I, Tina, the biopic of rockin granny Tina Turner is nicely above average, with dynamic concert sequences, great tunes, a ri ..
3.8
Unsentimental, non glamorized, and unclouded by the usual overlay of rose colored nostalgia, this is a raw but rewarding motion picture. ReelViews
4.0
As a truthful account of the life of Tina Turner or as a faithful adaptation of her as told to autobiography, I, Tina, this 1993 film cant be taken to .. Chicago Reader
4.0
Review Our Score by David Parkinson As you would expect of a film based on the autobiography I, Tina and on which Tina Turner herself acted as on set .. Radio Times
3.5
The film rarely gets past familiar gimmicks of the cartoon adventure genre, and the animation isnt very inspired. Cs Monitor
5.0
As the film has it, one night Tina takes an opportunity to step onto the stage and sing with Ike and, of course, Ike is blown away and offers her a jo .. Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
3.8
Fishburne is excellent in a very unsympathetic role. Ike Turner could so easily have been portrayed as one dimensional, but the talented Fishburne giv .. Internet Reviews
3.0
Angela Bassett does a good acting job as a person in Tina Turners position, easily winning audience sympathy. Internet Reviews
2.0
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4.5
Fishburnes astonishing portrayal of Ike is what holds the movie together. The actor builds, in precise increments, a devastating portrait of a macho c .. New Yorker
3.8
The other is the two stars: Fishburne and Bassett are both extraordinary, and though the story is inevitably slanted to Tinas perspective, Fishburne m .. Movies Tv Guide
4.5
Agreeably camped up biopic, ringing with righteous sentimentality and brassy defiance, with a furiously good central performance from Bassett. Film 4
4.5
You may not respect Whats Love Got to Do With It, but enjoying it is inescapable. La Times
5.0
Our Flick of the Week is Whats Love Got to Do With It, a powerful, joyful, raw, energetically acted bio pic detailing the joys and pain of the on and .. Articles Chicago Tribune
2.5
Brian Gibson, who directed the script by Kate Lanier, seems to have trouble taking charge of his material as he skips through the years. Articles Chicago Tribune
4.5
It is heartbreaking story, but one in which few tears are shed, but ultimately turns into a victory dance. Reel Talk Online
3.8
Her story is worth telling, and the film, regardless of its dramatic liberties, is an honorable and superbly acted tribute to its subject. Seattle Times
3.0
Laurence Fishburne the terrific actor from Deep Cover and Boyz N the Hood isnt so much miscast as under cast in the role of Ike. Articles Orlando Sentinel
3.8
Their nuanced performances give a spectrum of emotional shadings to a black and white script that casts Tina as the Beauty to Ikes unreconstructed Bea .. Articles Philly
3.8
performance is the one X factor in Whats Love Got To Do With It, which in most respects is an entertaining if conventional pop star biography. Articles Philly
4.4
That twisted story is the substance of Whats Love Got to Do With It, with Angela Bassett as Tina and Laurence Fishburne as Ike. Articles Baltimore Sun
5.0
Its a triumphant tale of redemption with a much happier spin than Lady Sings the Blues. Articles Sun Sentinel
4.5
As a star is born movie, the clumsily but pointedly titled Whats Love Got To Do With It follows a familiar path. Hartford Courant



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