| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 18, 2008

A moving and troubling documentary.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 26, 2007

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

[E]ntertaining, just a wee bit self indulgent, and highly emotional at times, Jay-Z's farewell performance [is] a sensational, if occasionally shallow, concert experience.

| Original Score: 88/100 | Aug 23, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 22, 2005

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 16, 2005

| Original Score: 88/100 | May 13, 2005

A solid concert flick and a surface-deep peek at how the music gets made, but ultimately the final product feels like a well-polished piece of marketing machinery.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 5, 2005

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 24, 2005

Stands as a powerful record of a truly historic event in the annals of rap.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 10, 2004

I'm more familiar with Jersey than with Jay-Z, but I found it difficult to watch this concert (shot in 2003) without gaining some appreciation for the rapper's rapid-fire verbal acrobatics.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Dec 3, 2004

To those of us without any particular axe to grind, Fade is always at least an average music doc, and it occasionally ventures into the realm of 'good.'

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 2, 2004

Unless you're a hardcore fan who's never seen the man in concert and really wants to by any means necessary, you'd be better off buying the soundtrack.

| Nov 19, 2004

A concert film that captures last year's Garden party along with well-orchestrated, if not especially revealing, behind-the-scenes footage.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 12, 2004

almost sleep inducing, with the star subject (who's about as chatty and revealing as Helen Keller) offering broad platitudes to his collaborators

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 11, 2004

A precedent-setting concert doc.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 7, 2004

A spectacular concert documentary that also gives some fascinating insights into the making of 'The Black Album.'

| Nov 5, 2004

While billed as 'an intimate look' at Jay-Z, the film reveals next to nothing about him beyond the fact that he possesses a formidable ability to spin and remember lengthy rhymes, however vulgar and reductive their content.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 5, 2004

Against a vibrant, well-lit backdrop, he performs his biggest hits with an intensity and clarity that should allow even the uninitiated to appreciate the lyrical dexterity which makes him the genre's dean, the first rapper profiled on 60 Minutes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 5, 2004

Much as with official corporate send-offs, the excitement of this documentary builds steadily for about five minutes and then, before you know it, there's nothing left to see.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 5, 2004