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Cast
- Don CheadleMiles Davis
- Ewan McGregorDave Braden
- Emayatzy CorinealdiFrances Taylor
- Michael StuhlbargHarper Hamilton
- LaKeith StanfieldJunior
- Austin LyonJustin
- Leticia MartinezBoxing Spectator
- Morgan WolkErica
- Jeffrey GroverGil Evans
- Philip KrinskyBicyclist
Recommendations
- 83
Hitfix
While there is an untruth at the heart of the film, it's in service of illuminating any number of smaller truths, and I find that approach fascinating. - 75
IndieWire
Erratic, unpredictable and constantly intriguing, Miles Ahead plays more like one of Davis' compositions than a traditional biopic, stumbling around with flashes of insight and a brilliant central performance. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
The abstraction of the approach perhaps limits the scope of Miles Ahead as an acting showcase, though in Cheadle's fully inhabited characterization, he nails the subject's soft, nicotine-scratched rasp and his eccentric irritability and paranoia with discerning understatement. - 70
Screen Daily
First-time feature director Don Cheadle has made an invigoratingly bold attempt to structure his film about Miles Davis as an extended visual and narrative equivalent of modal jazz. - 70
New York Magazine (Vulture)
This is probably Cheadle’s most electrified performance since the one that made him a star, as the incorrigibly homicidal Mouse in "Devil in a Blue Dress." - 67
The Playlist
Miles Ahead is well-intentioned and ambitious, but ultimately uneven, as it cannot redefine the structures its so desperately wants to break down. - 60
Variety
Don Cheadle flails about trying to channel the spirit of late jazz-trumpeting legend Miles Davis in Miles Ahead, a biopic that rejects typical genre conventions to the point of chasing itself down lame, tangential paths. - 60
The Guardian
Cheadle’s got the cred, and the period evocation is tremendous. It’s just that I’m not sure he has all that much to say
