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Whitney
Directed by
Kevin Macdonald
R
2018
2h
Documentary
,
Biography
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7.3
88%
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An in-depth look at the life and music of Whitney Houston.
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Cast of Whitney
Whitney Houston
Self (archive footage)
Bobby Brown
Self - Ex-Husband
Cissy Houston
Self - Mother
Clive Davis
Self - Founder, Arista Records
L.A. Reid
Self - CEO and President, Arista Records 2000-2004
Kevin Costner
Self - Actor
Dionne Warwick
Self - Whitney's Cousin (archive footage)
Bobbi Kristina Brown
Self (archive footage)
Nelson Mandela
Self (archive footage)
Marvin Gaye
Self (archive footage)
Babyface
Self - Songwriter / Producer
Robyn Crawford
Self (archive footage)
Dee Dee Warwick
Self - Whitney's Cousin (archive footage)
Rickey Minor
Self - Bass Player, 1983-1989 / Musical Director 1989-1999
Michael Houston
Self - Brother / Employee
John Russell Houston Jr.
Self - Half-Brother
Ray Watson
Self - Bodyguard, 2002-2012
Lynne Volkman
Self - Publicist
Arsenio Hall
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Steven Gittelman
Self - Management Team, 1981-1988
Kevin Stea
Self (archive footage)
Gary Garland
Self - Brother / Backup Singer
Byron Allen
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
David Letterman
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Michael Jackson
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gary Collins
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Merv Griffin
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Alan Jacobs
Self - Bodyguard (uncredited)
Whitney Reviews
Tribune News Service
Katie Walsh
[Macdonald's] "Whitney" is daring both emotionally and aesthetically, and gets to a kind of truth about Houston the public has never known before.
What the Flick?!
Christy Lemire
[Kevin Macdonald] knows how to tell a story about a really complicated famous person and try to provide insight into that person that we think we already know.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Kevin Macdonald's electrifying and empathetic doc on Whitney Houston drops a shocking revelation about abuse- but if his look at how she fell apart shortchanges the range of her talent it is anything but sensationalistic,
San Diego Reader
Scott Marks
For much of its two-hour running time, we watch the life slowly being sucked out of a legend; the last thirty-minutes are consumed by ineffability.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Kevin C. Johnson
It's all the Whitney Houston documentary you'll ever need - if you need one at all.
RogerEbert.com
Susan Wloszczyna
A well-done but all-too-woeful wallow of a documentary.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
To see this documentary is to be in awe of her talent, and to bask in it.
812filmreviews
Robert Daniels
But not unlike the documentary Amy, we confront a young, innocent, bubbly, and energetic woman. And as we progress, we see and hear the degradation of not only Houston, but also her voice.
New York Times
Wesley Morris
"Whitney" is too funereal to be a party, too sad, strange and dismaying to cheer. Yet, in its grim, guilt-inducing way, the film works, even on the occasions when it's working against itself.
NPR
Ella Taylor
For all the domestic sturm und drang, it's the blossoming of Houston's musical sensibilities that most engages in the film.
Us Weekly
Mara Reinstein
An explosive and controversial documentary that sheds new light on her tragic and perhaps inevitable fall.
The New Yorker
Michael Schulman
Macdonald makes artful use of jarring, subversive cuts to highlight the contradictions in Houston's career.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Kevin Macdonald's "Whitney" is a documentary chronicle of Whitney Houston's life; it's tough-minded, unsparing and far superior to the biopic and the nonfiction film that preceded it.
Andscape
Soraya Nadia McDonald
There is a steep price to pay for the racial malleability required for a little girl from Newark, New Jersey, whom everyone called Nippy to become Whitney Houston. Kevin Macdonald's documentary shows us how we all stood by and watched her pay it.
BuzzFeed News
Alessa Dominguez
Whitney offers a more complex portrait of the family that both aided Houston's rise and contributed to her downfall.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
It cannot fail to move and disturb with a story so compelling you can't turn away even if you know the outcome. Maybe especially if you know the outcome.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
The tempestuous life and sad death of pop diva Whitney Houston get an exhaustive documentary treatment from British director Kevin Macdonald... doing his best to implicate Houston's family and friends in her downfall.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
McDonald expertly drops in snippets of sometimes extraordinarily candid interviews with Brown, Cissy; Whitney's half-brothers Michael and Gary, and Kevin Costner.
Slant Magazine
Josh Wise
For most of Kevin Macdonald's film, Whitney Houston seems a guttering flame in a public crosswind, with only fleeting celebration given to the wildfire of her success.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Chris Riemenschneider
It's long and ultra-depressing, but still quite compelling, too.
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