Bob Marley: One Love
Bob Marley: One Love
The story of how reggae icon Bob Marley overcame adversity, and the journey behind his revolutionary music.
Kevin Ward reviewedJuly 2, 2025
Excellent performances from Kingsley Ben-Adir and Lashana Lynch and Bob and Rita Marley can only take the movie so far. It’s a film that only seems interested in playing the hits without providing much of any context around the pivotal events in Marley’s life. The shootings, the civil war, his estranged father, or his multitude of children not named Ziggy. The nonlinear storytelling, jumping forward and backward in time, felt like an admission that there just wasn’t enough of a through-line to warrant the biopic treatment. There really should be though, if they hadn’t decided to completely gloss over the heavy stuff. As a fan of his music, I was glad they featured so much of it. I definitely had his tunes running through my head the entire drive home. It’s serviceable, but I can’t really go so far as to recommend it. And I think I came away with more questions than answers about music legend.