Who ever thought I'd refer to an OutKast project as boring?

| Original Score: 1.5/4.0 | Sep 11, 2020

It's a tame, well-rehearsed story that hangs together to ensure Idlewild plays like one incongruous pop promo after another.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 3, 2018

The only hope for saving the humorless Idlewild is the atmospheric speak-easy setting, the great dancing numbers and the chill soundtrack.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 23, 2018

Benjamin and Patton have devised a basic Prohibition era gangster story as a background for their newest musical experiment melding modern hip-hop with the jazz and blues of the '30s, all put together with a great deal of visual cleverness and flair.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 27, 2011

Its hodgepodge plot only heightens its stale smell

| Aug 30, 2009

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 20, 2008

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 14, 2007

Though not as good as I hoped it would be, it's still an above par musical effort in the end...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 11, 2007

1930s black America becomes just a stage for OutKast's vanity project.

Full Review | Mar 15, 2007

Neither fish nor fowl. Nor foul, either, though not great--and ultimately, more idle than wild.

| Mar 1, 2007

In spite of several inspired moments where it exhibits some genuine promise, this desperate attempt to be all things to all people ends up sabotaging any potential to make a memorable contribution to the annals of cinema.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 8, 2007

The music, which sounds like a collaboration between Cab Calloway and Run DMC, keeps the story flowing.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 13, 2006

Idlewild overflows with inventiveness and random weirdness that sort of make it a must-see even if it isn't a particularly good film.

| Original Score: C- | Dec 4, 2006

Outside of the musical numbers, Idlewild is nothing more than an old-fashioned crime melodrama, a generic jumble of Prohibition-era gangsters and aspiring musicians - any one storyline instantly recognizable from a dozen other films.

| Nov 20, 2006

For a band whose music is suffused with such delicate irony, you'd expect at the very least for there to be a few laughs along the way? There are none. Nothing. Zero.

| Oct 14, 2006

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 14, 2006

Fans happy to luxuriate in its artistic indulgence, however, will be swept up in the weird, random, fantastic OutKastness of it all.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 6, 2006

You have to hand it to those OutKast fellas -- even when they make a mess, they do it with style.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 29, 2006

an eccentric, audacious musical that, like "Moulin Rouge," blends backstage drama, tragic romance and flights of fantasy into a story that bravely jumps from genre to genre and from era to era.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 22, 2006