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Variety by Chris Willman
Woodhead’s movie is at its best in how neatly it delineates the different musical phases of Fitzgerald’s career.
Ella Fitzgerald - Just One of Those Things
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- United Kingdom,
- United States
- 2019
- · 89m
Director
Leslie Woodhead
Cast
Ella Fitzgerald
Genre
Documentary,
Music
Ella Fitzgerald was a 15-year-old street kid when she won a talent contest in 1934 at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem. Within months she was a star. Over the next six decades, her sublime voice would transform the tragedies of her own life and the troubles of her times into joy.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Sheri Linden
Gathering new interviews and a fine selection of archival material, British documentarian Leslie Woodhead tells Fitzgerald's story with a sure feel for the joyous swing and sultry depths of that voice, and a sensitive eye on the complexities of life as a self-made Black woman in 20th century America.
75
San Francisco Chronicle by G. Allen Johnson
The best thing about Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things, other than the music, is the way it evokes an era and reminds us that its subject was one of the great voices of the 20th century.
67
Austin Chronicle
Just One of Those Things checks off all the stream-age doc boxes: unheard audio, unseen home movies, color from family, collaborator-peers, and celebs.
67
Austin Chronicle by Raoul Hernandez
Just One of Those Things checks off all the stream-age doc boxes: unheard audio, unseen home movies, color from family, collaborator-peers, and celebs.
40
The New York Times by Ben Kenigsberg
It proceeds dryly and largely chronologically through her life, sometimes with an awkward sense of proportion.
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