Kelly, Ghostface Killah, Memphis Bleek, P. Blige, Foxy Brown, Common, Mike D., Damon Dash, Missy Elliott, Funkmaster Flex, Just Blaze, Freeway, Questlove and the Illadelphonics, R. WITH: Jay-Z, BeyoncГ©, Michael Buffer, Mary J. 'Fade to Black' is rated R (under 17 not admitted without accompanying parent or adult guardian) for its language and sexual lyrics.Дirected by Pat Paulson and Michael John Warren produced by Bob Ezrin, Rich Kleiman and Justin Wilkes released by Paramount Classics. The fans are no doubt sorry to see him go, but does that mean they will be just as elated by his quick return? Jay-Z never eases up on his no-apologies pose, singing in one scene to all whiners: 'Cry me a river, build a bridge and get over it.' When he gives just a few notes of a song he is about to play, the audience breaks into an a cappella completion of that anthem. 'Everybody bounce!' Jay-Z tells his audience, which then does so in a jiggly spectacle. Now that the rivalry between these two proud outlaws is erupting, they look in this film even more like a gangsta version of Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart of 'Chicago,' with matching white fur-lined parkas and in-sync steps before a Jumbotron.Д®ven if the film could use some trimming, its hip-hop splendor proves hype-worthy. Kelly, and the partnership quickly collapsed. A year after his supposed retirement, Jay-Z returned to the stage for the 'Best of Both Worlds' tour with Mr. The cameo that everyone will study most intently is Jay-Z's duo with the soul singer R. Then when Jay-Z's purported love interest, BeyoncГ© Knowles, sets the half-dollar-size paillettes on her black minidress in motion, that songstress needs merely to walk from stage right to stage left and back for the audience's frenzied approval. Missy Elliott pulls one leg of her jeans upward, and Lil' Kim lets her dГ©colletage inch downward. Diddy arrives in a cropped rabbit-fur jacket, and Ghostface Killah sports python-thick chains with platter-wide medallions.

вЂDrive My CarвЂ™: In this quiet Japanese masterpiece, a widower travels to Hiroshima to direct an experimental version of ChekhovвЂ™s вЂњUncle Vanya.вЂќДЇor the concert Jay-Z corrals hip-hop stars and allies, each decked out in an expensive ensemble.

вЂPassingвЂ™: Set in the 1920s, the movieВ centers on two African American women, friends from childhood, who can and do present as white.

вЂSpencerвЂ™: Kristen StewartВ stars as an anguished, rebellious Princess DianaВ in Pablo LarraГnвЂ™s answer to вЂњThe Crown.вЂќ.

вЂSummer of SoulвЂ™: Stevie Wonder, Mahalia Jackson, Mavis Staples and others shine in QuestloveвЂ™s documentaryВ about the Harlem Cultural Festival.

Scott and Manohla Dargis, selected their favorite movies of the year. Rubin, who has recorded with everyone from Run-DMC to Johnny Cash, also finds something to marvel at: 'He doesn't write anything down.

In Los Angeles Jay-Z enjoys an in-studio haircut as well as the record producer Rick Rubin's taxidermy collection, especially a polar bear wearing a red fez.

A string of rhymes comes together, and he describes his trance: 'I go through my Rain Man. Posse members swig Pepsi, play ColecoVision and show off new riffs, while Jay-Z scowls in concentration. This overly long concert film follows Jay-Z through his preshow paces and visits studio sessions leading up to the big night last November.

Its energy, however, is infectious just the same. When you realize he has already returned to the same stage one year later for a troubled performance - last weekend - it is hard to muster much emotion for this would-be career-capper. In 'Fade to Black,' the rapper Jay-Z performs his own movie-length swan song set to thumping rhythms in Madison Square Garden.

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