

Straight Outta Compton
In the year 1986, friends Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, DJ Yella and MC Ren form N.W.A under Eazy-E';s Ruthless Records. After a successful first single with Eazy-E';s Boyz-n-the-Hood, music manager Jerry Heller sees the potential in the group and Eazy-E hires him to be their manager. Straight Outta Compton tells the true story of how these cultural rebels-armed only with their lyrics, swagger, bravado and raw talent-stood up to the authorities that meant to keep them down and formed the world';s most dangerous group, N.W.A. And as they spoke the truth that no one had before and exposed life in the hood, their voice ignited a social revolution that is still reverberating today.
















28 August 1967, Los Angeles, California, USA






8 April 1983, Los Angeles, California, USA


19 November 1984, Los Angeles County, California, USA






April 12, 2017
The film is remarkable because of how deeply it will resonate with today's audience.
August 13, 2016
It's a musical biopic in an urban warzone and we see how the culture of gangs and drugs and poverty and simmering racial conflicts shaped the group's angry message.
August 20, 2015
This movie about a group of risk-takers should have taken more risks itself.
June 17, 2016
Straight Outta Compton is at its most compelling when the band's adversaries are the authorities... But the film's energy level noticeably sags in the second half when the band are at odds with each other.
August 14, 2015
Straight Outta Compton is so beholden to the appeasement of so many artists and legacies and estates that none of it coheres as a movie.
August 21, 2015
It's very easy to imagine sing-along showings cropping up for years to come.
August 14, 2015
While no one will mistake this for a protest film-there are too many pool parties-the movie's portrait of a militarized police force all too eager to assault young black men can't help but resonate in our own moment.
August 15, 2015
Straight Outta Compton aims to cross cultures and sanctify the wisdom of the street-to make a universal underdog story. It succeeds on a visceral level.
March 15, 2017
This is a monster film. You will walk out feeling like you have been entertained, educated and emotionally fulfilled. Eight months into the year 2015, and this is the only perfect film that has hit the theaters. This is it.
June 12, 2016
The backdrop of Rodney King-era L.A and the realness and rawness of N.W.A.'s music, not to mention the passionate and heartfelt performances of the film's three young leads gives the film an undeniable power.
August 24, 2015
The core of the story is business, the object is power, and the quirks of desire and twists of the unconscious are given no place in the struggle-which the movie sharply carries ahead to the present day.
June 20, 2016
Straight Outta Compton swears to tell the truth, the half-truth, and nothing but the, uh... you know the rest.