Jay Z - Fade to Black (2004)

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10/18/08

[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.

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08/23/05

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.

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04/05/05

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01/24/05

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

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12/10/04

This doesn't stand with the great hip-hop documentaries.

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12/03/04

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.

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12/03/04

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.'

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12/02/04

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.

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11/19/04

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

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11/12/04

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

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11/11/04

Delves deep into the creative process, unlike almost any film before it, to show where and how producers and rappers come together to make a hit song.

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11/08/04