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Biggie & Tupac

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United Kingdom · 2002
Rated R · 1h 47m
Director Nick Broomfield
Starring Tupac Shakur, Nick Broomfield, The Notorious B.I.G., Russell Poole
Genre Documentary, Music

In 1997, rap superstars Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls were gunned down in separate incidents, the apparent victims of hip hop's infamous east-west rivalry. Nick Broomfield's film introduces Russell Poole, an ex-cop with damning evidence that implies the LAPD deliberately fumbled the case to conceal connections between the police, LA gangs, and Death Row Records.

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Variety by Dennis Harvey

Broomfield's shaggy p.o.v. always troubles -- blurring the lines between tabloid and serious reportage, morbid curiosity and hard facts, objectivity and amusing, quasi-amateur stuntsmanship.

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New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman

Broomfield conducts riveting interviews with a former LAPD officer, Biggie's fiercely protective mother and assorted hangers-on, but the actual thrust of his evidence seems almost irrelevant.

75

Chicago Tribune by John Petrakis

Those not well versed in the rap music world may be a little lost at times, but you don't need to know your Ice-T's from your Cool-J's to realize that as far as these shootings are concerned, something is rotten in the state of California.

12

New York Post by Lou Lumenick

This time out, Broomfield comes up with maybe enough halfway decent material for a 10-minute segment on a second-rate tabloid TV show.

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Chicago Reader by Ted Shen

A wily and dogged inquisitor, Broomfield cajoles and confronts a variety of witnesses, charting a web of intrigue that also involved the LAPD, the FBI, and assorted gangbangers and rogue cops.

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