'Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell': TV Review

hollywoodreporter.com:

It's hard to do a convincing warts-and-all portrait when your subject built a livelihood celebrating their warts and even harder when you're determined to treat those warts as pimples.

That's the challenge facing director Emmett Malloy with the new Netflix documentary Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell. This latest attempt to do a revealing, yet authorized depiction of the life of Christopher Wallace — b.k.a.

The Notorious B.I.G., b.k.a. Biggie Smalls, b.k.a. Biggie, b.k.a. The Black Frank White, b.k.a. Big Poppa — suffers simply, but not fatally, from being unable to either mythologize or humanize the man better than he mythologized and humanized himself.