Reviews for this film from our members:
- Candice Frederick @ Reel Talk
- Travis Hopson @ Examiner
- Excerpt: A celebration of the seminal album’s 20th anniversary, but also a dissection of the influences that allowed a street poet like Nas to create such an influential album.
- Charlie Juhl @ Citizen Charlie
- Excerpt: “Life’s a Bitch” are apt words to describe Queensbridge, but for some folks out there, it is home.
- Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: An engaging document of how – and, more importantly, why – this particular album had such an impact.
- Matthew McKernan @ FilmWhinge
- Excerpt: The film does little of its own work, but its portrait of the Projects in 2013 is as effecting as ‘Illmatic’s was in 1994.
- [New – 12/4/14] | Simon Miraudo @ Quickflix
- Aaron Pinkston @ Battleship Pretension
- Excerpt: Nas: Time Is Illmatic, a look at the influential album twenty years later, doesn’t feel like the complete account that some may want, but it is a sharp and entertainment profile of an important artist.
