Spinning Gold
critic Reviews
, 31% Rotten Tomatometer Score- A fairly flat telling of a true story that was far more colorful and entertaining in real life, Spinning Gold is destined for the cutout bin.
- , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreMarah EakinChicago Reader
The movie suffers from a lack of objectivity about its subject as well as from a lack of vision about the film’s true direction...
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreRichard RoeperChicago Sun-Times
Strange and misguided...
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreOwen GleibermanVariety
The biopic as Wikipedia entry where you look up the Wikipedia entry and see that it is, in fact, more accurate — a better biopic — than the movie.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreAdam GrahamDetroit News
It's a music tale without a pulse, without rhythm. And most tragically, given its subject, without soul.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScorePeter SobczynskiRogerEbert.com
The problem with “Spinning Gold” is not that it's a bad movie so much as a boring one about a true story.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreSara Michelle FettersMovieFreak.com
I try to refrain from being hyperbolic when I don’t care for a motion picture, but there were moments during the restless musical biopic Spinning Gold where I felt like it was attempting to physically assault me.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreAlejandro LingentiLa Nación (Argentina)
More than a biopic, Spinning Gold is an unabashed homage to Neil Bogart... [Full review in Spanish]
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreEzequiel BoettiOtroscines.com
Spinning Gold doesn't work as a fable about the pursuit of the American dream but as a superficial, schematic approach to an era with an artistic effervescence that still impresses us today. [Full review in Spanish]
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreSandie Angulo ChenCommon Sense Media
The result is an underwhelming, occasionally tedious look at the producer, the label, and even the artists.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreT.J. CallahanAWFJ.org
We are observers and toe tappers watching Casablanca Records founder Neil Bogart spin music into gold records while his life, fueled by drugs and alcohol, spiraled out of control during the raucous 1970’s.
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