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Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
'Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown' is a look at the music career of musician James Brown which begins with his first hit song, 'Please, Please, Please,' in 1956.
2 June 1941, Bloomsbury, London, England, UK
21 April 1941, Bradenton, Florida, USA
9 January 1913, Yorba Linda, California, USA
1 August 1960, Roosevelt, Long Island, New York, USA
21 January 1965, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
16 March 1912, Ely, Nevada, USA
3 October 1954, Brooklyn, New York, USA
25 June 1933, Kosciusko, Mississippi, USA
26 October 1951, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
27 August 1908, Stonewall, Texas, USA
8 July 1908, Brinkley, Arkansas, USA
4 October 1943, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
11 August 1925, Chicago, Illinois, USA
19 May 1925, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
5 December 1932, Macon, Georgia, USA
8 June 1977, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
27 May 1911, Wallace, South Dakota, USA
4 July 1943, Mobile, Alabama, USA
October 26, 2014
Mr. Dynamite is a strikingly varied and substantial portrait of an intensely complex artist.
October 27, 2014
This is a smart, informative and compassionate look at the artist known as the Godfather of Soul, whose music changed America.
October 27, 2014
While this doc certainly could've used more texture, and sometimes races along like a cinematic Wikipedia entry, Gibney accomplishes his task at hand, showing exactly why Brown has had the ability to "stay on the scene" for decades, and decades to come.
October 27, 2014
There's so much to the Brown story that focus becomes an issue in a film like Alex Gibney's "Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown." How do you capture the hardest working man in show business in just two hours?
November 03, 2014
His fans will also get a kick out watching him sing, dance, and showboat as only he knew how to do. But if you don't care for the singer or his music, chances are that you'll lose interest in it before it's over.
October 27, 2014
A documentary film on the life and times of James Brown as the times made the music and the music shaped the times, it is a long, soulful scream over an insistent funky vamp.
October 27, 2014
Alex Gibney's Mr. Dynamite: The Rise Of James Brown is an assured threading-of-the-needle, slowly working its way to the sweet spot where the man and the legend overlap.
October 27, 2014
People make documentaries about musicians all the time, and some of them are rich with insight. But even among the best of the bunch, few are as thorough about the artist's music as Alex Gibney's Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown.