Naomi Ackie is excellent in the title role and the film delivers all the singer's big hits, but it swerves the difficult questions Whitney Houston has already been the subject of two startling and effectively competing documentaries: Nick Broomfield's Whitney: Can I Be Me? from 2017 and Kevin Macdonald's Whitney, which was released a year later. Each in its own way was hamstrung by legal issues and family pressure, although Broomfield's was perhaps the more judicious and insightful. Now here is ...
Naomi Ackie is excellent in the title role and the film delivers all the singer's big hits, but it swerves the difficult questions Whitney Houston has already been the subject of two startling and effectively competing documentaries: Nick Broomfield's Whitney: Can I Be Me? from 2017 and Kevin Macdonald's Whitney, which was released a year later. Each in its own way was hamstrung by legal issues and family pressure, although Broomfield's was perhaps the more judicious and insightful. Now here is ...
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