For two hours, this film cherry-picks moments of Ms. Houston’s life — some recognizable, some not — and stitches them together into a perplexing, not altogether comforting quilt...a towering talent, a movie star, a pop queen. She is a loyal wife and a heartbroken woman. She is a drug user and a has-been. All of those things were true, but the percentages of each in this movie hardly jibe with the public record...Ms. Houston isn’t the hero; her ex-husband, Bobby Brown (Arlen Escarpeta), is...Ms. [Yaya] DaCosta fluently mimics Ms. Houston’s gestural tics, the quick neck-snaps and chin-juts that she brought to her performances. And Ms. Houston’s vocals are delivered gloriously by Deborah Cox, the rare singer who can even approximate Ms. Houston’s pyrotechnics...“Bobby Brown: Remembering Whitney,” an hourlong interview...is far more riveting than the film that occasions its existence...Sometimes we, you know, love a person so hard that we’re loving them wrong, and maybe I did that.”
Posted on: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 21:11:27 +0000
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