Do you think Rolling Stone’s Peter Travers enjoyed Dreamgirls?
This baby dazzles like nothing else anywhere. Starting with its dream cast, led by Jamie Foxx and Beyoncé, Dreamgirls is a movie that has everything: a blazing new star in Jennifer Hudson, a riveting, revitalized Eddie Murphy, a hot-lick score by Henry Krieger and the late Tom Eyen, a timely story about how music can sell its soul to greed and compromise, and a dynamo of a director and screenwriter in Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters, Kinsey). He’s the white guy with the brass to direct a tale of black artists who break faith with race, family and R&B to swim in the mainstream. As he proved with his script for Chicago, Condon also knows his way around a musical. He keeps Dreamgirls charging until it moves right into your heart.
Hudson was dispatched by Simon Cowell a few years back. Now they’re talking Oscar. Nice rebound, girl.
FYI, Travers also liked Apocalypto, The Good German and Inland Empire. He disliked Bobby.