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What is left to say about the spectacular rise and agonizing fall of Whitney Houston, whose drug-fueled decline played out in such full public view that it’s hard to imagine any biopic rising above tabloid cliché? 

Give or take a few new tidbits about the pop superstar’s childhood scars and fluid sexuality, Scottish director Kevin Macdonald’s absorbing documentary Whitney doesn’t break with the sad blueprint that frames rock docs by the handful.

Movie Review: ‘Whitney’: A Diva, Deconstructed

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