Authentic, with an Amazing Soundtrack

Rating: 8/10 (2 May 2020)

This semi-autobiographical film stars Eminem as a Detroit rapper who very much resembles Eminem. That's on purpose, and there is an honesty and goodness in this movie that may take you by surprise. Everybody, including me, who has lived in Detroit any time since the 1960s recognizes the authenticity of this story and the cityscape against which it is told, and the soundtrack is a musical revelation. ---from Musicals on the Silver Screen, American Library Association, 2013