Your Movie Library
Cast
- Whitney HoustonHerself (Archive Footage)
- Oprah WinfreyHerself (Archive Footage) (uncredited)
- Mike TysonHimself (Archive Footage) (uncredited)
- Cissy HoustonHerself
- Serge GainsbourgHimself (Archive Footage) (uncredited)
- Bobbi Kristina BrownHerself (Archive Footage)
- Bobby BrownHimself (Archive Footage)
- Robyn CrawfordHerself (Archive Footage)
- John Russell Houston Jr.Himself (Archive Footage)
- David RobertsHimself
Recommendations
- 83
IndieWire
The film’s main triumph is in crafting a convincing narrative with a clear point of view. - 80
Variety
It just has a story to tell, and it does that incredibly compellingly. - 80
Village Voice
We’re fortunate to witness such impassioned consideration of Houston’s art, career, and life from the people who actually knew her. Still, it’s notable that Crawford isn’t interviewed here. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
For all the beautiful and lovely music Whitney Houston gave us, for all those soaring notes she hit, the documentary Whitney. Can I Be Me is a nearly joyless and melancholy piece of work. Because we know how it ends. - 70
Screen Daily
Whitney Can I Be Me delivers yet another tragic lesson in the toxic mix of fame and talent and children: it should be required viewing for all those who seek to follow this diva’s path to fame and fortune. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
We are left with a powerful sense that her death was a tragic loss, both privately and publicly, but Can I Be Me never quite tells us why. - 60
Village Voice
The film doesn’t use enough of Houston’s music. - 60
Time Out London
At least there’s plenty from Whitney herself in incredibly poignant TV interviews where she talks about her struggles with fame and addiction.
