Herbie Hancock: Possibilities (2006)

30% of critics liked it
(10 reviews)
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(53 ratings)

Ordinary music soars to extraordinary heights as gifted keyboardist Herbie Hancock joins forces with a variety of well-known music superstars to offer a completely original listening experience. As Hancock collaborates with such artists as Paul Simon, Annie Lennox, Sting, and John Mayer, the cameras… More Ordinary music soars to extraordinary heights as gifted keyboardist Herbie Hancock joins forces with a variety of well-known music superstars to offer a completely original listening experience. As Hancock collaborates with such artists as Paul Simon, Annie Lennox, Sting, and John Mayer, the cameras are permitted into the studios and behind-the-scenes to show just what happens when some of the greatest music minds of a generation converge. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Rating, Runtime: Unrated, 1 hr. 30 min.
Directed By: Doug Biro, Jon Fine
Genres: Musical & Performing Arts, Documentary

In Theaters: Apr 14, 2006 Limited
On DVD: Apr 18, 2006
Studio: Magnolia Pictures

Critic Reviews

Josh Kun, Los Angeles Times
[Possibilities] feels more like a behind-the-scenes CD promo than a fully realized film.
V.A. Musetto, New York Post
As directed by Doug Biro and Jon Fine, the film plays like one long commercial.
Laura Kern, New York Times
This documentary portrays the intense collaborative efforts that went into the recording of Herbie Hancocks latest album, Possibilities.
Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter
What we have here is a solid documentary covering one of the icons of modern music.
Phil Gallo, Variety
Possibilities will likely draw in only the most hardcore of Hancock's fans.
Luke Y. Thompson, Village Voice
With its straightforward track-by-track recording-session clips, it feels like something you'd find on the bonus disc of a deluxe package.
Daniel Eagan, Film Journal International
A cynic might regard Herbie Hancock: Possibilities as a glorified 'making of' video, fleshed out with some archival footage and clips from recent concerts.
Maitland McDonagh, TV Guide's Movie Guide
[The archival clips] are more interesting than the present-day material, which has the bland smoothness of a promotional press kit.
Ernest Hardy, L.A. Weekly
With elder-statesman words of wisdom from the man himself, Possibilities celebrates an impulse that's too rare in modern music: the love behind the labor of creation.
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine
Hancock's political musings seem mostly out of place in a film that, in essence, is little more than a glorified EPK.