The movie is a true life story of a gangstar group, their expeditions, encounters, lyrics, swagger, bravado and raw talent.
4 June 1973, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
18 February 1965, Los Angeles, California, USA
3 July 1985, Gardena, California, USA
4 February 1976, Denver, Colorado, USA
26 July 1965, Olean, New York, USA
19 September 1985, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
April 12, 2017
The film is remarkable because of how deeply it will resonate with today's audience.
August 20, 2015
This movie about a group of risk-takers should have taken more risks itself.
August 15, 2015
Straight Outta Compton aims to cross cultures and sanctify the wisdom of the street-to make a universal underdog story. It succeeds on a visceral level.
August 24, 2015
The core of the story is business, the object is power, and the quirks of desire and twists of the unconscious are given no place in the struggle-which the movie sharply carries ahead to the present day.
August 14, 2015
Straight Outta Compton is so beholden to the appeasement of so many artists and legacies and estates that none of it coheres as a movie.
June 20, 2016
Straight Outta Compton swears to tell the truth, the half-truth, and nothing but the, uh... you know the rest.
June 17, 2016
Straight Outta Compton is at its most compelling when the band's adversaries are the authorities... But the film's energy level noticeably sags in the second half when the band are at odds with each other.
August 13, 2016
It's a musical biopic in an urban warzone and we see how the culture of gangs and drugs and poverty and simmering racial conflicts shaped the group's angry message.
March 15, 2017
This is a monster film. You will walk out feeling like you have been entertained, educated and emotionally fulfilled. Eight months into the year 2015, and this is the only perfect film that has hit the theaters. This is it.
June 12, 2016
The backdrop of Rodney King-era L.A and the realness and rawness of N.W.A.'s music, not to mention the passionate and heartfelt performances of the film's three young leads gives the film an undeniable power.
August 21, 2015
It's very easy to imagine sing-along showings cropping up for years to come.
August 14, 2015
While no one will mistake this for a protest film-there are too many pool parties-the movie's portrait of a militarized police force all too eager to assault young black men can't help but resonate in our own moment.
