Roger Ebert
We are hardly started in 8 Mile, and already we see that this movie stands aside from routine debut films by pop stars... Like Prince's Purple Rain, it is the real thing.
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8 Mile
Eminem's rags-to-riches drama. The people of Detroit know 8 Mile as the city limit, a border, a boundary. It is also a psychological dividing line that separates Jimmy Smith Jr. (Eminem) from where and who he wants to be.
Best Original Song ("Lose Yourself"), at the 2003 Academy Awards.
2002Rating: M110 minsUSA
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8 Mile / Reviews
Hollywood Reporter
Writer Scott Silver and director Curtis Hanson dig deep into the (rap) subculture to deliver a terrific movie.
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As a vanity project, the film is more tolerable than Purple Rain but it's every bit as obvious and redundant.
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Chicago Tribune
An exciting, well-crafted movie, loaded with (Detroit's) urban atmosphere.
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San Francisco Chronicle
More funny than foul, more inspiring than infuriating, more touching than not.
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Empire Magazine
This makes a remarkable hat-trick for Hanson and is a personal triumph for Eminem.
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Time Magazine
Because it rejects easy victories, this may be one of the few inspirational movies that could actually inspire someone, somewhere, sometime.
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