The album has the feel of a B-sides collection culled together as a cash-in on the rapper’s death.
Animal Ambition finds 50 Cent in Charles Foster Kane mode, looking back fondly on the days of his youth.
Power is a warmed-over soap opera only superficially obsessed with its protagonist’s relationship to guns and drugs.
A collection of comments about winning, losing, perseverance, discipline, violence, compassion, exploitation, responsibility, and ambition.
The film preaches a familiar strain of cynical, unchallenged self-righteousness in the face of widespread abuse of civil liberties.
Taste and good intentions are only going to get one so far with a script this tone deaf and direction this ugly and monotonous.
The film employs a flashy text-and-graphics aesthetic that immediately brings to mind the satirical undercurrent of a Grand Theft Auto video game.
Géla Babluani’s redo of his own 2005 film 13 (Tzameti) has been only superficially updated for American audiences.
Fifteen years after Larry Clark’s controversial feature, the Kids still aren’t all right.
Robert De Niro and Al Pacino share countless scenes together but don’t develop anything more than a clichéd cop-duo rapport.
Fiddy and Kanye’s egos have been bolstered by huge album sales and huge critical praise, respectively, but Fif takes the cake.
The film primarily forgoes gritty realism in favor of disingenuous, reductive fantasy in the star-glorifying vanity project mold.