All this shows Don Cheadle as not just a fan himself, but one who also wants to pay appropriate homage and respect to this great artist...

| Original Score: A | Jun 18, 2024

In keeping with the tempo and improvisational flair of his subject, Don Cheadle has succeeded in breaking through the standard tediums of biographical film.

| Aug 1, 2023

It’s good enough; but given the legend that is the subject matter, and the paucity of films in which his story is central, I’d argue that it needed to be better than "good enough" – if not great...

| Sep 15, 2022

It's an interesting way tell a fascinating story, and Cheadle handles both a difficult role and directorial duties with style.

| Sep 29, 2021

Don Cheadle is MILES AHEAD in this compelling biopic...

| Sep 29, 2021

It's not quite jazz, but it certainly isn't square.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 30, 2021

A made-up story about a legend that's enjoyable even if you don't give a damn about jazz.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 5, 2021

Actor-director Don Cheadle unleashes genius jazzman Miles Davis as a tormented husk who just wants to get wasted in peace.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 14, 2021

The fictional part of Miles Ahead, however entertaining it is, is a pulp. It doesn't resemble the incredible smoothness and sophistication of Kind of Blue. But in the spirit of jazz improvisation, Cheadle has the right attitude...

| Jul 17, 2020

The most important element is Cheadle's titanic acting performance as Davis, which transcends mere imitation to give us a glance of a tortured genius' inner life.

| Jan 13, 2020

Cheadle embodies Davis in every way, down to his famously furtive and mercurial physicality, his lack of eye contact and his raspy voice.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 22, 2019

Like jazz, this film is all over the place, but Don Cheadle gives eccentric musician Miles Davis the characterization and respect he deserves.

| Oct 16, 2019

Jazz is about cadences, rhythm, and daring; everything that this dry biopic seems to lack.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 4, 2019

An ambitious endeavor that doesn't always hit the mark but is held together by an Oscar nomination-worthy performance by Cheadle.

| Original Score: B | Jan 15, 2019

Don Cheadle's ambitions for his first directorial feature don't completely pan out in terms of story, but "Miles Ahead" at least stands out in its unique execution, if nothing else.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 31, 2018

An occasionally ridiculous film about a man who was far from ridiculous.

| Aug 29, 2018

[It] brings the attitude and then some. Destroying the typical boundaries of classic set design and time, it rather brilliantly suggests a subjective perspective can aesthetically break apart, divide on impact, tailspin into a deep void of depression.

| Aug 23, 2018

The result is confusing, unconvincing and more than a little disappointing.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 24, 2017

In other words, for fans only.

| Sep 27, 2017

Somewhere between Almost Famous and Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Miles Ahead is an oddity as cinematic musical biography that somehow entertains and engages

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 15, 2017