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Beyond the Lights

Open your heart, find your voice.

2014 · 1h 56m · PG-13 Drama, Romance
Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood

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Overview

Noni Jean is a hot new rising star. But not all is what it seems, and the pressure causes Noni to nearly fall apart - until she meets Kaz Nicol, a promising young cop and aspiring politician who's been assigned to her detail. Can Kaz's love give Noni the courage to find her own voice and break free to become the artist she was meant to be?

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All reviews
83%
Tomatometer
Fresh

In every scene here, Prince-Bythewood calmly and sensitively melts our resistance to the outlandish, outsized quality of her plot and stays true to the message she wants to deliver without ever getting pious or preachy.

Dan Callahan, TheWrap
Rotten

Has the elements of a classic backstage story, but they don't quite crystallize into an integral drama.

Richard Brody, New Yorker
Fresh

It's a movie about a rising superstar that features two of them-Mbatha-Raw and Parker, both enormously appealing, impossibly attractive performers with big futures ahead of them.

Dana Stevens, Slate
Rotten

"Beyond the Lights" is a faint shadow of 1992's "The Bodyguard," without the star power of Whitney Houston or Kevin Costner.

Rafer Guzman, Newsday
Fresh

Director Prince-Bythewood, who made the move from television to the big-screen in 2000 with the terrific romance Love and Basketball has a way with actors.

Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post

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