Spinning Gold

The movie suffers from a lack of objectivity about its subject as well as from a lack of vision about the film’s true direction...

Strange and misguided...

The biopic as Wikipedia entry where you look up the Wikipedia entry and see that it is, in fact, more accurate — a better biopic — than the movie.

It's a music tale without a pulse, without rhythm. And most tragically, given its subject, without soul.

The problem with “Spinning Gold” is not that it's a bad movie so much as a boring one about a true story.

I try to refrain from being hyperbolic when I don’t care for a motion picture, but there were moments during the restless musical biopic Spinning Gold where I felt like it was attempting to physically assault me.

More than a biopic, Spinning Gold is an unabashed homage to Neil Bogart... [Full review in Spanish]

Spinning Gold doesn't work as a fable about the pursuit of the American dream but as a superficial, schematic approach to an era with an artistic effervescence that still impresses us today. [Full review in Spanish]

The result is an underwhelming, occasionally tedious look at the producer, the label, and even the artists.

We are observers and toe tappers watching Casablanca Records founder Neil Bogart spin music into gold records while his life, fueled by drugs and alcohol, spiraled out of control during the raucous 1970’s.